Janie saw her liife like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone.
2007-04-10 10:28:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
She saw her life as a whole, not just bits and pieces. She saw the good and bad, the accomplished and unaccomplished with equal intensity and saw it as a life that was continuing to grow.
2007-04-10 10:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by sfs18 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any plant can often be used by an author as a symbol or life or a person's entire existence. The plant grows from a seed and then grows into a tree, but it also has scars and broken branches. It may have blossoms but it also has places where it isn't symmetrical.
Janie has been off with her three husbands and nothing turned out the way she expected it to, yet she learned. Logan was stable but boring; Jody was exciting at first but then controlling and oppressive; Tea Cake was perfect in love, but he was also a thief, unreliable and abusive. One has to remember that this novel is mostly a story of a person's search for love and search for self. She has found it, and that is the meaning of the quote you used.
2007-04-10 17:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by John B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt read the book so Im only guessing from this exact quote. But I would say that it means that she is seeing her life at its climax point. A tree in leaf is in its most beautiful and prime form. She sees herself as having reached her climax and she is thinking on all the things that have been. Suffered, enjoyed, and things she has done or things she never got to do.
2007-04-10 18:03:15 · answer #3 · answered by Jessica K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She sees her life as a huge deciion tree - both the good and the bad; the known and unknown ("things done and undone"). It seems to refer to the branches and limbs of tree as choices faced in life - decisions made - paths taken and untaken in life.
2007-04-14 14:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by newfoot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a metaphor.
2007-04-10 17:32:41 · answer #5 · answered by Wait a Minute 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nonsense, and the rest appears to be bad poetry, or just plain gibberish...
2007-04-10 18:03:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death?
2007-04-10 17:48:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋