Journal: Chapter 8-12

In the second paragraph of Chapter 9 Zora Neale Hurston describes Janie getting ready for the funeral and for the mourning. Hurston also describes that Janie has given the people her face of mourning, "She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world," (88). This conveys that Janie is not really mourning for the loss of Janie, but secretly unchained from Joe and can enjoy her special relationship with nature which was taken away from her husband. Hurston uses the simile, "It was like a wall of stone and steel," (88) to bring attention to the fact that her veil was like a wall and something to separate how she showed herself on the outside and how she really felt on the inside; which was a really big comparison one might even say Hurston used juxtapostion to compare these two completely different ideas to bring the reader the attention of how Jody was keeping her down and she needed to be free in order for her to be one with nature and with what she so desires. "Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life," (88) helps my point a great deal more by saying that Janie feels that she can live and breath again without the restraints of a man to keep her down.