Journal 7

The way that Hurston begins and ends each chapter gives a feeling of closure for that chapter. Sometimes she even includes a metaphor or imagery that is used later in that chapter. But the way she ends the chapter also gives a sense or continuation, "She went on in ther overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief" (pg 189). We know that Janie still somehow has to get back to Eatonville where the story began, and we know that she came there in overalls. But the way that Hurston ends the book, brining her back to her conversation with Pheobe, makes the reader go through the different events in the book and tie them all together to make the story come full circle.