Chapter 1:
Men:
- wait for wishes to come
- see dreams - some land, some are too late
- "watcher" = dreams are outside of them.
- men always want what they don't have
- similar dreams
- desire their dreams greatly
- freedom (+)
- broad horizon of possibilities (+)
- dreams are out of reach sometimes (-)
- They are not in control - time is (-)
Women:
- women know what they want, remember good desires
- selective in memories
- correlate dreams with reality, dreams based on reality
- boundaries of reality have already limited the horizon of their dreams.
- dream = truth
- power in their hands (+)
- more realistic in their goals (+)
- fear? (-)
- dreams limited because of their realities (-) - why dreams are limited is also debatable.
- forget things they don't want to remember = forget their fanciful dreams because they know they can never have them and the sorrow at that is too much.
"sick", "ailing", "sodden", "bloated", "sudden dead", "eyes flung wide open in judgement" - brings you back to reality
Porch-sitters:
- during the day they are restricted, less human - slaves "tongueless", "earless", "mules and other brutes"
- at night they come alive and become human - "powerful", "human", "lords", "They sat in judgement" - like God.
Hurston definitely dislikes gossip, calling it "burning statements", "killing tools", "mass cruelty".
- people judge Janie on appearance (hair, body) - men like her, but everybody thinks she doesn't belong.
- think she is being a bit ungrateful when she comes back from her fancy life wearing overalls. - "serves her right, thinking she was better than us" - what the porch-sitters would say.
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