Monday, February 16, 2009

Journal entry 7

Mrs. Turner is heavily affected by how her husband treats her, or rather, by how her husband doesn't treat her. The man does not try to do anything to keep her back or to make her abide by any sort of rules that some men did in the early 1900's. He also did not strike her or dare to hush her up. This gave Mrs. Turner a load of confidence and superiority, since she thought that she was better than everyone else, just because no one told her that she has gone too far. In fact, Mrs. Turner even reversed what husbands usually do to their wives in that time: she struck him.

There role in marriage is to show how a marriage can end badly if the love for the pair dissappears. This can be proved by how neither Mrs. or Mr. Turner try to confront the other about issues and talk things out, all that happens is that one gets yelled at by another. Also, it is apparent that they don't particularly like spending time together, since most of the time Mrs. Turner is out and about and talking with other people, instead of being at home. One more thing that could signify how the love has run out is that the pair may consider themselves a bad pair, since only one out of the five children that they had survived to the age of 20.

This pair is very different compared to Janie and Tea Cake. For starters, Tea Cake is the one in charge of the relationship between Janie and Tea Cake, doing things like forbidding Janie from seeing Mrs. Turner, as well as hitting her just to show Mrs. Turner who is boss in the relationship. Mrs. Turner is the one in charge of her relationship, seeing as she hit her own husband, and can do what she wishes. Also, Tea Cake actually cares about Janie, such as he doesn't want her to go to work sometimes just because she is tired. Mr. Turner doesn't really care about what happens to Mrs. Turner, as shown how he did not try to help her when she was being trampled on.

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