One technique Hurston uses in these two chapters is personification. She personifies doubt in a similar way that she did for death. "In the cool of the afternoon the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt." (pg. 163) She does this to help explain the internal conflict that Janie is experiencing at this point in the story.
She also continues her motif of power, but it is transforming into more of a mutual power between Janie and a man (Tea Cake). When Hurston describes the relationship between these two she mentions "All those signs of possession" (pg. 166) in order to show the power that both of them had. It shows how they both belong to each other, thus giving both of them power in the relationship. This is the first time that Janie holds any power at all over a man.
She also uses the metaphor of a tree to show the promise of the relationship between Janie and Tea Cake. "He could be a bee to a blossom- a pear tree blossom in the spring." (pg. 161) She used a tree in the spring as a parallel to Tea Cake's personality in order to show his excitement and beauty in Janie's eyes. Like a tree in the spring, their relationship had promise to become very successful.
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