"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.
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