Three patterns found in Their Eyes Were Watching God
1. The first pattern that I noticed in TEWWG was the sun/sunlight. It is mentioned pretty often throughout the first few chapters, starting from the first page:
"But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human." (p.1)
And again on page 51:
"Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun." (p. 51)
2. A second pattern that I noticed was the comparing of women to animals. This can be seen on page 14:
"De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see." (p. 14)
And on page 41:
"Everybody was coming sort of fixed up, and he didn't mean for nobody else's wife to rank with her. She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang." (p.41)
3. The third pattern that I noticed was a repeating pattern of highness or elevation, often relating to Jodie/Janie. This can be seen on page 62:
"Here he was just poring honor all over her; building a high chair for her to sit in and overlook the world and she here pouting over it!" (p. 62)
And lastly on page 32:
"He was very solemn and helped her to the seat beside him. With him on it, it sat like some high, ruling chair." (p. 32)
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