"Through pollinated air she saw a glorious being coming up the road. In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. That was before the golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes" (Hurston, 25)
This paragraph is about perspective. Before her experience with the bee and the pear tree, Janie viewed this boy as "shiftless". He wasnt anything special. But after the pear tree, she sees him as a "glorious being". The recurring idea of judgment and its impact on life is present here. The symbol of pollen being present is mentioned twice in this paragraph because the pollen represents enlightenment in the sense that her eyes were opened to a new perspective by the pollen from the tree. The scene is set with the phrase "through the pollinated air". Her change in perspective is marked by the "golden dust of pollen" that "beglamored his rags and her eyes", it made her see past his exterior. She refers to her perspective before the pollen as blindness, because she had never considered life in this new way. This short paragraph shows the importance of considering more than one point of view. Once Janie started doing this, she was able to enjoy the company of Johnny without the limitation of her previous judgments of him.
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