Death of a salesman 2

Charley and Willy have a different relationship. They are continuously bickering. Everything that comes out of one of their mouths is always shot down by the other one. What they bicker about is never anything that is very important. Also, when Willy is talking to Charley, he always makes a point to make Charley feel bad about himself, in order to make Willy feel better about himself. For example, when Charley is asking Willy about his ceiling, Willy talks about how he put it up. Charley then goes on and says how he doesn't understand how someone could put of a ceiling. Before Charley could say something bad about Willy, Wily makes sure to make fun of Charley. He talks about how Charley is not a man because he does not know how to handle tools. This happens eariler when Charley is talking about his heartburn. Willy tries to make him feel stupid and tells him that he knows nothing about food or how to eat. Charley makes a sarcastic comment about how knows he has to eat through his mouth, and Willy got mad about him making a joke at what he said. Willy then went into further depth about how Willy doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to food. All throughout their conversations they just bicker. You can tell that Willy is more dominant in the relationship because Charley is always afraid that Willy is insulted, while Willy openly pokes fun at Charley.

Death of a salesman 1

Biff and Happy are two very confused characters. Obviously, Biff is a young man who doesn't know what he wants out of his life. He is constantly changing jobs, and still hasn't found anything he is happy with or extremely successful with. Happy, who has a steady job and is looking to get moved up in, isn't at a point where he is happy in his life either. He is just wanting to stay in the job long enough to be promoted and be able to have that seat of power and see what it feels like briefly, before he runs off with Biff out west to try and find a place from them to get settled and perhaps become happy. While Happy is much more successful and has more than Biff has, he is still an extremely lonely young man. Throughout these first few pages he brags about his ability to get any girl he wants, but in the end he is still very lonely because he hasn't gotten settled with anyone yet, and that is what he wants more than anything. Neither one of these characters are very happy about their overall life. In order for Happy to feel good about him self, is to lure all of his executives wives or girlfriends in, and have an affair with them. This makes him feel powerful, and like he is better than someone in someway. Biff is happy for a brief time, and then he realizes that he has not made any progress in his life yet. Over all, neither one of the characters are very reliable. Obviously, neither one of them are very loyal because one is going behind his bosses back and having an affair with their lover and the other is switching jobs constantly which makes him not loyal to his employers at all.

Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 19-end

After the storm, when Janie and Tea Cake go back to the Glades, Tea Cake gets extremely sick from the bite he received from the mad dog. Janie notices that he has a gun under his pillow after they get in a fight one night because Tea Cake thinks Janie is sneaking off to see Mrs. Turners relative. Janie decides she should have her rifle hidden just incase the mad dog inside Tea Cake tries to hurt her. She was right, one day the mad dog in Tea Cake did get angry, and he pulled the gun on her. When the gun clicked 2 times, Janie reached for the rifle to try and scare Tea Cake. After the third click, Janie knew the gun was about to go of the next time he pulled the trigger, so she prepared her self. Janie pulled the trigger two seconds before Tea Cake could, and ended up killing him. While she is on trial for Tea Cake's death, she barely says anything. This is because she doesn't really care if she goes to jail or not for his murder, because when he was killed, she was killed also. What she wants is for people to know that she loved Tea Cake with everything she had. She doesn't want people to think less of her or think she maliciously killed him because she didn't love him anymore, because that was not the case at all.  At the moment, all of Tea Cake's friends were extremely mad at her, because they just didn't understand what happened.  The only way to get to save Tea Cake was to get the mad dog out of him, and once that happened he could go on to heaven and be happy and calm, and that is what happened. She was putting him out of his misery as well as saving her self. When she was on trial, she wasn't exactly trying to tell people what happened to get herself out of going to jail. She just wanted to let people know that she loved him. 

Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 16-18

In these chapters, there are many people fleeing Everglades to search for safety. At first it is a group of Indians that are leaving, and when Janie asks, they say that there is a hurricane coming and they are trying to get away. Then, Janie notices that most of the people around her are leaving, including some animal flocks. Tea Cake decides that he wants to stay behind, so him and the rest of the stragglers all join together at Tea Cake's house and have a party to wait for the storm to hit. When everyone else goes home to weather the storm, a man named Motor Boat stays with Janie and Tea Cake. The narrator says the "their eyes are watching God" as we are reading about them staying together as the storm worsens. They know that everything is out of their hands now, so all they can do is sit and trust that God will protect them. This just stands for how in life, there is only so much you can actually do, and the rest is up to God. All throughout the book, Janie is going through a sort of storm her own self because she has everyone around her giving her opinions and making her do things, but then she has her own idea of what should happen also, and when you put everything together it just stands for confusion. Now Janie needs to just live her life and "go with the flow" and realize that when it all comes down to it, God will lead her in the right direction, and choose her fate.

Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 13-15

When Janie and Tea Cake first arrive at Everglades, and they get settled in in their house by the lake, she first starts off just cooking and hunting for Tea Cake. He begins to come home randomly in the middle of the day to talk to Janie, and Janie suspects that he has doubts that she is faithful to him. He explains that he just misses not seeing her that much, and all day is way to long to go without her and asks her to come out and get a job mucking with him. She is quick to take this offer. At first, it is probably because she was extremely lonely just sitting at the house all day cooking beans and desserts for Tea Cake by herself, waiting for the night time festivities to come along. The main reason she agreed so quickly was because this was sort of like a checkers moment. She had never been asked to play checkers before and when he first asked her too she was so excited to do it. She had never been asked to come and work with someone because they wanted to spend more time with them. Also, this was sort of like another way she could live her life. She was doing what was out of the norm for someone like her, who used to live in the white house and be the mayors wife. This working was different from the work she did with Logan and Jody because he actually asked her if she wanted to do this instead of buying her a mule to make her work and forcing her to spend all hours at the store.

Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 7-9

Their is a passage at the beginning of chapter 9 that talks about how in the beginning of existence, there was only one many and lots of angels. This many shined so bright and was always singing beautiful songs, but then the angels quickly got annoyed so they broke the man down. After a while, they were still annoyed so they chopped the man down into even smaller pieces. These pieces were then covered in mud and lived the rest of their life longing to be put back together again. This story relates to Janie's experience in many ways. When she was first sitting under the pear tree, dreaming about love, she was all shines and happiness. She couldn't wait for the second when she could love someone. One of the first times when she was chopped down a tiny bit was when she kissed the man by the fence post and nanny saw. While at that moment her light shined brighter than before, she was soon dimmed because Nanny disapproved. When she married Logan, she hoped that she could find love in him, but she quickly found out that he had no real love for her. This was the first instance where she was chopped down majorly. Once Jody came around, she at first finally thought that she had found the one she could be happy with. The hole in her heart could possibly be filled. But after 10 years, she still hadn't found anything to plug up the hole. She starts to get verbally abused by Jody, and soon physically abused, and in return she is chopped up again. Now all of the bad things he is saying is the mud that is covering her. Everytime he treats her porrly, it is just another layer piled on top. Once he died, all of the men came courting her, but the mud is too thick for her to be able to go out and find someone again, even though her heart is aching for it.

Their Eyes are Watching God Chapter 6

In chapter 6, the towns people all get together and joke with Matt B about his mule. They sit on the porch of the shop and make fun of it for being skin and bones. They talk about how the woman are at the lake using its bones for a washboard. Janie feels for this helpless animal that is always mistreated by both Matt and is made fun of by the townspeople. She is treated poorly also by Jody. She is always told to do things like go and work in the store, just like the mule is always forced to work the field with an empty stomach. She feels for the mule because in her relationship with Jody she just does exactly what he tells her, she wants to feel like she is helping someone, because she cant stick up for herself. They both are mistreated for by their "masters", and she wanted to at least help one of them. When Jody bought the mule, Janie was extremely proud of Jody because he went out and helped the creature she wanted to help so badly.

Their Eyes are Watching God Chapter 5

Jody is able to act the way he does because of many reasons. First, he has a since of authority about him that makes people do what he says. While he doesn't ever hit anyone or do anything other than tell people what to do and when, people say " you kin feel the switch in his hand when hes talking to yuh." He has a sort of authority and presence that follows him everywhere he goes, and it makes people listen and do what they are told. Janie fell into this authority and sweettalk the first time she met him, and thats how she ended up here. Also, the first thing he did when he got to Eatonville was start building the town up. He bought land that was uncommonly big for an African-American to buy, and this awed everyone in the town. From there they slowly started listening to everything the Mayor said. Once they realized that he was a very bossy man, it finally hit them that they were following him like a puppet and at that point it was too late. He already had them all wrapped around his fingers. Another reason he can act the way he acts is because he is different from the people he is surronded by, and everyone knows it. He obviously has alot of money, and he isnt afraid to use it. Also, he has a better education, and is a very literate man. He has done alot for the city, so while people don't nessecarily like doing everything he says, they look around and notice that before he got their, Eatonville was nothing, and now it has grown up.

Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 3-4

"They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged."

There is imagery found all throughout this book, whether it is Nanny talking about branches or Janie talking about pear trees. In the last paragraph of chapter 4 there is a passage that has a reference to nature that stands for a much deeper aspect of Janie's life. Janie and her new husband Joe Starks just snuck away to another part of Florida and got married. Now they are sitting together watching the sun set, and in the distance night fall rises from the same area. This could stand for Janie's old life has just set and ended. She no longer is worrying about what her Nanny would say since she passed away, and now she doesnt have to worry about her old husband Logan any longer. Now she is sitting with her new husband, and is waiting for her new life to surround her, or night. She doesn't exactly know what this new life of hers will bring with it because night can be a mysterious and full of questions, but they are waiting for it to rise from where she left off. Also, this night could represnt that this new life isnt going to be as bright and happy as her old life was, even if her old life wasn't that great to begin with. She dropped everything for this new man and ran away with him without getting to know him. Who is to say he doesnt have anything dark hidden in his past.