Hurston Opening Doors Analysis

The imagery of opening doors is used by Hurston in order to display the chances, and options one has after escaping the room that had all those doors that would have led to many different paths much earlier. Tea Cake and Janie sit in the store drinking Coca-cola when Tea Cake offers to Janie if she wanted a passenger train or a battleship using the questions “Which one do you want? It all depends on you.” (101) The freedom of choice is finally in Janie’s hands as Tea Cake asks her “Which do you want?”. Hurston projected the emotion of contentment through the last quote “‘Tain’t dat Ah worries over Joe’s death, Pheoby. Ah jus’ loves dis freedom.”(93) then moving on to Janie making a choice on her own of her own free will, no longer controlled