Their Eyes were Watching God--Chapters 6-11

I am going to be honest and say that the last few chapters that we were assigned kind of bored me.  The chapters about Janie and Joe and how he simply puts her down and orders her around like a pack mule—seems like he is her master and she is the slave that listens.  Nanny had told Janie about the white man giving the burden to the black man and then the black man hands it to the black woman—seems like the first one was cut out of this picture.  The romanticized Joe is gone and now he is a bitter old man that wants his way and has placed himself upon a pedestal.  Whenever she tries to confront him about it he just makes her feel bad.  He becomes physically abusive to her as well.  It seems like she lets people walk all over her until that one day when she actually gets the nerve to stand up for herself.  But then of course he cannot take what he dishes out and becomes sick and eventually dies.  To be honest—Good Riddance!

She finally gains a little independence and allows herself some freedom from the opposite sex to be her own person.  However, like a typical story another man walks by her and she becomes love struck once more and begins to fall for him.  If this story is like any other typical story it does not take a genius to figure out what’s going to happen.  Especially, from the beginning clues that are in the first chapter—seems like a cycle to me.  I am not saying that I don’t like the novel it has just been very predictable so far but I won’t judge it until the end!