Janie's grandmother was the most influential person on Janie and her dream for Janie was to attain social and financial security. Nanny wanted Janie to "sit on high" by marrying someone that had a good position in the community that could protect her (Page 16). Nanny liked Logan because "Got a house bought and paid for sixty acres uh land right on de big road" (23). Janie's grandmother dislikes that "De nigger woman is mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see" because she believes that black woman are equal to mules (14). Nanny believes that she is in the lower class because she says, "de white man is de ruler

Janie changes during childhood as she seeks for her self identity. Janie cannot identify herself at the age of six when she says "So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Elenanor. Date's where Ah wuz s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me. So Ah ast, "Where is me? Ah don't see me" (9), "Dat's you, Alphabet, don't you know yo' own self? Dey all uster call me Alphabet 'cause so many people had done named me different names." shows how Janie is perplexed about her name. The pear tree reveals Janie's self development during the early years of her life. "She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom: the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from room to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!" this quote shows how Janie compares the blooming pear tree to a marriage (11), The image of the pear tree represents a

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