The novel is the story of Janie's coming to self-awareness, living her life according to her own purpose. At the beginning of the novel, she decides to tell her story to her friend, Phoebe, knowing full well that the town of Eatonville will be wanting to know why she has arrived back home by herself, a middle-aged woman wearing overalls and tying her long hair in a great rope. Janie is a woman determined to live up to her high level of awareness and her loftiest vision of what a human life should be and in the end she has found her life, her love, her pear tree and she is contended to go on with her life knowing that her pear tree has blossomed.

sented the most obvious theme in the story and is symbolized by Janie's pear tree. "She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. She searched as much of the world as she could...waiting for the world to be made" (11). When she is sixteen, she watches the bee take nectar from the tree, and from that point, forward she looks for the perfect male relationsh

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Approximate Word count = 715
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)