In addition, Logan compares Janie to his first wife, which puts her down and makes Janie feel like she is not good enough for him.“By forcing Janie into the role of the mule, Logan shatters Janie’s imaginary identification: he desecrates the pear tree, Janie’s ideal of love and marriage” (McGowan 52). Although when Janie marries Logan, she does not love him, she expects to grow to love him. However, when she sees Logan, the image of him destroys her spirit of love and sexual awakening. Coupled with the fact that Logan makes her do manual labor, her ideas of true love and sexual awakening is destroyed. “Janie defines sexual communion through the natural process of reproduction—specifically through the image of a “pear tree soaking in the alto chant of visiting bees” (11). In contrast to this image, Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, forces her into a marriage with Logan Killicks, an old man with a home and sixty acres” (Miles
In addition, Logan compares Janie to his first wife, which puts her down and makes Janie feel like she is not good enough for him.“By forcing Janie into the role of the mule, Logan shatters Janie’s imaginary identification: he desecrates the pear tree, Janie’s ideal of love and marriage” (McGowan 52). Although when Janie marries Logan, she does not love him, she expects to grow to love him. However, when she sees Logan, the image of him destroys her spirit of love and sexual awakening. Coupled with the fact that Logan makes her do manual labor, her ideas of true love and sexual awakening is destroyed. “Janie defines sexual communion through the natural process of reproduction—specifically through the image of a “pear tree soaking in the alto chant of visiting bees” (11). In contrast to this image, Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, forces her into a marriage with Logan Killicks, an old man with a home and sixty acres” (Miles