Journal #10

The unbalance of power within a relationship will ultimately lead to its failure. I believe that although this theme may need some reworking, it offer quite an amount of evidence in Janies various relationships.

• "She knew now that marriage did not make love." (p.25)
  
• "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak uh oughta be able tuh tote it inside [...] You done been spoilt rotten." (p.26)
  
• "You don't need mah help out dere, Logan. Youse in yo' place and Ah'm in mine." (p.31)
  
• "I God, Ah ain't nowhere near old enough to have no grown daughter. This here is mah wife."
• "It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off things."
• "Janie, Ah'll git hold uh somebody tuh help out in de store and you kin look after things whilst Ah drum up things otherwise."