Jody ain’t never in his life picked out no color for me”(112). Tea Cake’s love made Janie’s life complete. Although it was a tragic event that he ended up dying, he had already provided Janie with the love that she desired throughout her life, and for that, Janie was thankful and satisfied. In the end, when Janie was returned to Eatonville, even though she was without Tea Cake, she stood as a strong woman who knew she had experienced a great love. Janie no longer was searching for what she wanted out of life, she had already found it: “Here was peace.
Waiting Between the Trees is about Ying-ying who was a wild girl when she was young. She was raised in a wealthy family and her mother always told her that she would bring shame to their family. After her first husband left her for an opera singer she went to America to start a new life. She met a man named St. Clair and knew that she would marry him but could not love him. She eventually learned that she must let go of her past and love this new man.
In neither the book nor the movie did Janie want to marry the old stranger, and she ended up leaving him for another guy, Jody Starks. Because of Jody's constriction, Janie never felt as though she was living her life to her fullest. Both the book and the movie note Janies love and conection with nature. Unlike in the book, the movie missed out on alot of details that the book had had. For one, in the book Janie tells Phobe her story from when she found out she was colored, the movie did not have that in it.
But towards the middle of the book Caleb and Maggie fall in love. Even though Caleb supposedly hit Maggie with his car she and him “… [Took] life the way it [came] at [them] and [made] the best of it.” They both worked with each other. Caleb worked for his community service and Maggie worked to receive money. Apparently Caleb and Maggie’s families didn’t want them together but who could blame them, if Caleb never hit her it would have been a difference story. Caleb and Maggie didn’t care what they said though and went on to loving each other and secretly meeting up.
Kate met Gerry McCann at college and they got married. Kate wanted to be a good parent: “being an only child, she always wanted big family, lots of children” (Hewitt, et. al.). They tried to have children, but Kate was infertile. Thanks to vital fertilization, they had Madeleine McCann on May 12, 2003.
To Janie a marriage is about a mutual and reciprocal fulfillment that should be filled with love. It seems that throughout the whole narrative, Janie is constantly looking for this type of ideal marriage and love and being at one with nature. In her marriage to Logan Killicks she hopes to find this ideal marriage, “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”(24). Logan Killicks crushes Janie’s child dream and any hope she had for that perfect marriage and love, so with this new realization, Janie knows that she must become a woman and do away with her childish dreams.
In Stephanie Coontz “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” she expresses her opinion of what marriage is perceived as by showing that it is unrealistic with examples of the history of marriage from around the world. She goes on to point out that with George Shaw’s theory of marriage “an institution that brings together two people under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions” (378) is amusing and has unrealistic expectations. According to Coontz, marriage has revolutionized from being a tool of survival to a plethora of personal reasons such as happiness and fulfilment. She also points out that passionate love has played a minor role or was even discouraged in marriages in history by stating
When Novalee was only seven years old her mother ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred. That left her living with other people who still did not truly care. She finally thought she had found someone who loved and cared about her, his name was Willy Jack Pickens. Novalee thought that she was going to marry him some day. But on there way to California he proved her wrong by leaving her at a Wal-Mart “He was going to California and he had left her behind...left her magazine dreams of old quilts and blue china and family pictures in gold frames” (16) thats when things went wrong.
In 1894, Gilman and Stetson legally divorced and Stetson married a good friend of Gilman’s, Grace Ellery Channing, and Gilman sent Katherine back east to live with her father and his new wife because Gilman said that Katherine had a right to know and love her father just as Stetson had the right to be a part of his daughter’s life. In her memoirs, Gilman reported that she was happy for her ex-husband and his new wife was as good a mother as Gilman was and perhaps better in some ways. (Wikipedia, Web Charlotte Perkins
Of course parents didn’t understand our “lachrymose” souls, but we understood each other immediately. It was a friendship from the first sight. She was a leader and I fell into a line with her charisma. Natalia was a true friend not just to me but to many other classmates. She possessed a rare talent to make friendship in a second, charming people with her *** smile .