Pattern 1:
The first pattern I noticed was one of males assuming dominance and ownership over Janie. This is displayed in various places in the book, such as:
pg.31: "You ain't got no particular place. It's wherever Ah need yuh. Git uh move on yuh, and dat quick."
pg.43: "Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home."
Pattern 2:
The second pattern that caught my attention is the connection of love and marriage to trees and plants.
pg.10: "She saw the dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was marriage!"
pg.24: "Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah. . ."
pg.106: "He could be a bee to a blossom- a pear tree blossom in the spring."
Pattern 3:
Lastly, the third pattern I found was that of new and better things appearing or happening with the appearance of the sun. Love is also very involved with the sun.
pg.25: "It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making."
pg.29: "Leave e s'posin' and everything else to me. Ah'll be down dis road uh little after sunup tomorrow mornin' to wait for you. [. . .]"
pg.33: "So they were married there before sundown, just like Joe had said."
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