“She had learned how to talk some and leave some”(76). “She was a rut in a road”(76).

Chapter 7:The years took all the fight out of Janie’s face. For awhile she thought it was gone from her soul • “She had learned how to talk some and leave some”(76). • “She was a rut in a road”(76). • “Now and again she thought of a country road at sun-up and considered flight”(76). • “She lived between her hat and her heels”(76). • “she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing”(76). • “You ain’t no young pullet no mo.’ You’se uh ole hen now”(77). • “…the cruel deceit of Janie! Making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time!”(80)

Joe’s Comeuppance • “Joe wasn’t so young as he used to be” (77). • “He didn’t want her to stay young while he grew old”(77). • “The more people in there[the store]the more ridicule he poured over her body to point attention away from his own”(78). • “[he] realized all the meanings and his vanity bled like a flood”(79). • “Janie had robbed him of his illusion of irresistible maleness that all men cherish”(79). • “cast down his empty armor before men and they had laughed”(79).

Joe con’t • “ They’d look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them”(80). • “For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?”(80). • “Ambition was useless”(80).

Miscellaneous • “A woman stay round uh store till she get old as Methusalem”(78). • “The thing that Saul’s daughter had done to David”(79). • “Ah ruther be shot with tacks that tuh hear dat ‘bout mah self”(79). • “You heard her, you ain’t blind”(79).

“She had learned how to talk some and leave some”(76). “She was a rut in a road”(76).