(PG 32) What was she losing so much time for? A feeling of sudden newness and change came over her. Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good.
Previous to these lines Logan and Janie had been fighting and Logan was telling her that her and her feelings were bad and useless. What was she losing so much time for? This line plays into her realization of the fact that she finally felt something for someone (Joe) but because her grandmother told her she needed to be with Logan she felt obligated to stay with him no matter how he treated her. Here she is realizing that it is her life and she doesn’t need to stay with Logan to please her grandmother anymore, not only because she is dead, but also because she is realizing that staying with someone even if you don’t love him or her, isn’t the way it should be. She is starting to develop her own thoughts and opinions, which contradict many of the things Nanny had been teaching her.
Good. Can you trace her development throughout the course of the novel?
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