Zora Neale Hurston chooses to define Janie not by what is wrong in her life, but by what is good in it. ... She may not be able to clearly define her thoughts, but the reader still sees that Janie's ideas are romantic and full of sensuality. ... The initial description of him, ". . . a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn't belong in [those] parts" [26] immediately sets a firm image in the reader's mind, so no one is surprised when Janie leaves "ole skullhead" and decides to marry Joe instead. ...

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This is a Man's World I knew I had to do it, but it was hard to bring myself up to the register. Slowly putting the magazine I had chosen down onto the desk , I looked up and saw the cashier giving me "the look." The look you get when you have just committed an act of deviance. Here I was, a 6'1...

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