salesman 1

happy and biff are two well built men in their mid 30's. they are home for a little bit. biff is kind of a wanderer, he doesnt get payed a lot and he cant keep a job very long. he is a free spirit and just wants to have a job out side. his brother happy, has a job, is well-liked and has a nice place to live. he is lonely, he wants some one to be with he isnt happy going through women any more. i dont think they are reliable becase nether one is really all that stable, it kind of seems liek they could go off at any moment. happy is a little more stable than biff though. 

19

janie doesnt talk very much in the trial because she feels like her soul has died alone with tea cake. and the second reason she doesnt care how the trial turns out, because she has died inside. the only reason she finally speaks is because she wants people to know the truth about her and tea cake. she wants every one to know that their love was strong and mutual. and she had been looking through the whole book for the perfect lover who would lover her back. it turns out that tea cake was the love of her life because they respected each other and had a mutual love for each other, up until the end when tea cake got sick from the mad dog. 

16-18

in the end of the reading for tonight there is a hurricane that comes and janie stays on the muck with tea cake. during the storm they stay in the quarters with motor boat, another man who stayed through the storm. the line "their eyes were watching god" means that they were afraid for their lives because the storm was so bad, and they equated the storm to an angry god. they were watching the storm so then they were watching god. they finally decide that it is important for them to leave and so they try and make it through all the water but cant and r forced to grad debris and then tea cake gets bitten by the dog trying to protect janie. 

13 - 15

when janie starts to trust tea cake, and when he starts missing some work to be with her se comes up with an idea. she is going to work with him. she does this because one she wants to be with him and two because they have a mutual relationship so she feels that she has a place with him. it is different from working with logan and jody because there is a mutual desire in her working. not just because she needs to work, because she doesn't, but because she wants to be with him. it is her choice to work that is the major difference. 

7-9

in this part of our reading the reference to the angels was symbolism for janie and her relationship with jody. in one way Janie is the little pieces and the mud is symbolism for jody keeping her beauty and elegance away from everyone so she would be only his. and in another way janie is still the little parts but the mud is her relationship with jody and how it isnt close to how she thought it would be and now she is just right back where she was before, she is just as unhappy with him, because he wont let her shine. 

6

Janie likes the mule for two reasons, one because all of the men talk about it and she goes out to listen to their stories, and two i think it reminds her of her self. when she goes out to listen to the men talk then she can get away from doing math in the store and selling things. she enjoys listening to their stories because they are interesting and they are a distraction from Joe forcing her to work in the store. and the mule reminds her of herself because it is being forced to work like she was with logan and like she is with joe. also because it is being starved and she feels like Logan's oppression over her is starving her from having an ideal life. 

5

Jody makes himself major of Eatonville, because they didnt have one and he felt like he should be the person to step up as major. and once he was major he was making all these decisions for the town and lobbying for it, persuading people to come live there. he called meetings and he bought street lamps, he bought himself a huge wooden desk and a swivel chair. he thought that he was sooo important.

the irony is that he came to this town so that all the blacks could live together equaly, and as soon as he gets there he puts himself above them all by making himself major. 

3-4

The last paragraph in this chapter signifies that she is starting a new life with joe and how she thinks that it is going to be better than it actually, that is signified by the sun-rising. and the fact that life isn't going to be as good as she thinks it will be, that is signified by the setting sun. 

it means that she is falling for the same think, when she married logan she thought that life would be better and she kept waiting for it to get better, it never did. she is now going through the same thing with joe.