Pg. 3. “...what you ever know her to do so bad as y’all make out?”
Pg. 3. “...what you ever know her to do so bad as y’all make out?” Pheoby, her best friend, argues for Janie. She asks why just because she didn’t stop to tell them all HER business, why would it be that it’s necessarily bad? They are making it out to be she looks all scraggly because her man left her and took her money. Just because Janie isn’t answering anyones gossip doesn’t mean that her situation is bad.
Pg. 4 “...they hoped the answers were cruel and strange...” It proves that the people on the porch are just looking for something interesting to talk about, and if her story is ‘cruel and strange,’ it definitely would be.
Pg. 5 “Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people...they done ‘heard’ ‘bout you just what they hope done happened...” Janie talks about people judging others just because they don’t know their story. She knows that if she doesn’t say what others want to hear, it will make no difference as to what she actually says. “They know mo bout yuh than do yo’ self,” is saying that others will say more about someone than that person will know about themselves - which is sarcastic saying that they’ll say things that really aren’t true.
Pg. 5 “...they’s a lost ball in de high grass..” the people don’t bother her, she doesn’t notice them. Pg. 6 “...people like dem wastes up too much time puttin’ they mouf on things they know nothin about.”
Pg. 3. “...what you ever know her to do so bad as y’all make out?” Pheoby, her best friend, argues for Janie. She asks why just because she didn’t stop to tell them all HER business, why would it be that it’s necessarily bad? They are making it out to be she looks all scraggly because her man left her and took her money. Just because Janie isn’t answering anyones gossip doesn’t mean that her situation is bad.
Pg. 4 “...they hoped the answers were cruel and strange...” It proves that the people on the porch are just looking for something interesting to talk about, and if her story is ‘cruel and strange,’ it definitely would be.
Pg. 5 “Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people...they done ‘heard’ ‘bout you just what they hope done happened...” Janie talks about people judging others just because they don’t know their story. She knows that if she doesn’t say what others want to hear, it will make no difference as to what she actually says. “They know mo bout yuh than do yo’ self,” is saying that others will say more about someone than that person will know about themselves - which is sarcastic saying that they’ll say things that really aren’t true.
Pg. 5 “...they’s a lost ball in de high grass..” the people don’t bother her, she doesn’t notice them. Pg. 6 “...people like dem wastes up too much time puttin’ they mouf on things they know nothin about.”
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