“’Tain’t too many mens would trust yuh… ‘Tain’t no mo’ fools lak me… He hoped that he had hurt” (30-31).
“De way he rears and pitches in de store sometimes when she make uh mistake is sort of ungodly, but she don’t seem to mind at all” (50).
The quick dwindling of Logan’s kindness and his demands for her to perform manual labor ignited anger and defiance in Janie. His lack of love fueled his defiance so much that she ran off with Joe Starks, a wealthy man who had instilled a “feeling of sudden newness and change” in Janie. While I inferred that this change would result in a more independent and continually defiant Janie, she does not continue to express these freedoms in her relationship with Joe. Instead, she seems to become passive and submissive to his dominant character. This surprised me as she fought bought with Logan and continued to hope for love; however, now, she relinquishes to Joe with little protest.
Mary-You set up a useful comparison here in exploring the differences between Janie's relationship with Logan and her relationship with Jody. It is indeed striking that she quickly seems to become submissive to Jody in a way that she refused to do with Logan. (Your last sentence needs a bit of revision...)
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