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.