Journal 1

In the first chapter, I perceived Janie as someone that is envied by many others for her beauty, and the wealth given to her by her ex-husband(pg.2). She seems to take the other people's thoughts about her indifferently, yet get's bothered that they judge her for what she has done. She also seems to be proud of herself by the way she interacts with Pheoby and talks about her thoughts of the other women in the village that talk behind her back. The way the other women in the village begin asking questions about Janie (pg. 2) makes me perceive her as someone who pursues what she wants and is indifferent about what other's think of her actions.

I perceived the narrator as a third person omniscient narrator because she seems to know everything about the characters and what's happening at every moment. But the narrator is more focused on Janie Starks, the protagonist of the book. The narrator also seems to be feminist because in the first passage of the novel, she describes men's life as either successful or unsuccessful yet when she talks about women, she says that they "act and do things accordingly." (pg.1) I also perceived the narrator as creative due to the way she uses narrative techniques.