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The first act of freedom for Janie begins with the death of her husband Joe, where she felt so
much joyous and released to start up a new life of desire that makes her happy. Further, she feels
free and begins to wear white cloths as per her customs which is a signal of her availability to meet
new men who were the sailors. After the death of Joe, Janie begins to think of exploring her
newfound independence and freedom without considering the desire to be tied down by any other
men at any time soon (Hurston 65). It is ironical that Janie gains liberation from the death of her
husband because it is always assumed that a married life has a lot to benefit from contrary to the
being tied down as portrayed by Janie.
The phrase “starch and iron her face” as indicated by Janie symbolizes the freedom to begin
a new lifestyle such as the newfound freedom to the expression of speech to be more self-aware and
introspective (Hurston 65). Phoebe tells Janie not to express herself the way she feels about the
death of Joe. That is because she believes that the whole of townspeople will have the belief and
think that she does not show any signs of being sad while Joe is dead. There are a lot of people who
advise Janie to rethink of remarrying such as Hezekiah, Phoebe. It is because they believe that her
newfound freedom would assist her to get tied down. However, she replies that she does not feel
ready since she still asserts and reconsider her desires.
The distance between Orlando to Eatonville is not far using the train as the means of going
to the town. Janie is concern that Tea Cake will be unable to get back home because it was
becoming late for him after such a lengthy discussion since the baseball game was also already

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done. Hezekiah asks Janie if she can leave early to work because there was a baseball game which
was about to begin. However, Janie does not go with him since a customer enters the store to buy
cigarettes which in turn flirts and later invites her to play checkers (Hurston 75). The “phrase
glowing inside” in regards to Janie means that she felt thrilled and respected to be invited to play
checkers out of flirtation from Tea Cake. The comments that Tea Cake makes on the first meeting
with Janie is an indication of the development of the second stage of determining what kind of
relationship she wants to achieve in her new life.
The jokes and flirt between Janie and Tea Cake, for instance, begin when she ask Tea of
whether how he plans to get home. Tea Cake replies with a joke that he always find a way even if it
would be getting into the train illegally. It makes her remember the memories of her past life and
when he met his husband, Joe. The questions that Janie asks Tea Cake on motivations are significant
to redefine herself in the newfound independent life alone. The statement made by Tea Coke on
“got a lil piece of fire over there lady” literary is a gesture that he had a feeling of being
introspective and more self-aware due to the freedom of speech she gained (Hurston 85). There are
some references to nature depicted from the characters. One of them is the presence of Hurricane
which symbolizes destructive fury...