Imagery

Throughout chapter 3 and 4 there is a great use of imagery. In chapter 4 Janie and her new husband, Joe Starks, sneak away and get married. At the end of the chapter Joe and Janie are watching the sunset. The last paragraph of the chapter uses imagery and on the surface seems like its just talking about nightfall and sunset but it is really a metaphor for Janie. It is being used to describe Janie's new life because now that Nanny is dead she no longer has to please her by being married to Logan. Janie isn't sure what her new life will be like but she seems pretty sure that it will be better then the one she had with her former husband Logan. Sitting there with her new husband in the darkness could also foreshadow that her new life might be worse but she knows as soon as the sun rises a new life begins but you can't be to sure if it will be a happy one or not.