Quick Irony
While reading the ending of the novel, in chapter 19, right after the trial sequence some men were talking about the trial right outside where Janie was staying, they said, “Well, you know whut dey say ‘uh white man and uh nigger woman is de freest thing on earth.’ Dey do as dey please” (Hurston 180). I noticed how this was contradictory to what Janie’s grandmother said earlier in the novel, “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world” (Hurston 14). I was wondering what everyone has to say about this and if they noticed it also. I also it is interesting of the gender of the people who say it and their perspective. Men say the women and it good while women disagree. I also think the men who said that were black like Janie’s Grandmother, but I am not sure.
- Andy
