Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered

56/260You can buy and sell such as dem wid what you got. In fact you canbuy ’em and give ’em away.”“Ah ain’t studyin’ ’bout none of ’em. At de same time Ah ain’t takin’dat ole land tuh heart neither. Ah could throw ten acres of it over defence every day and never look back to see where it fell. Ah feel desame way ’bout Mr. Killicks too. Some folks never was meant to beloved and he’s one of ’em.”“How come?”“ ’Cause Ah hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat onde sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck.”“He never made his own head. You talk so silly.”“Ah don’t keer who made it, Ah don’t like de job. His belly is toobig too, now, and his toe-nails look lak mule foots. And ’tain’t nothin’in de way of him washin’ his feet every evenin’ before he comes tuhbed. ’Tain’t nothin’ tuh hinder him ’cause Ah places de water for him.Ah’d ruther be shot wid tacks than tuh turn over in de bed and stir upde air whilst he is in dere. He don’t even never mention nothin’pretty.”She began to cry.“Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under apear tree and think. Ah…”“ ’Tain’t no use in you cryin’, Janie. Grandma done been long uhfew roads herself. But folks is meant to cry ’bout somethin’ or other.Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin’ whutmout happen befo’ you die. Wait awhile, baby. Yo’ mind will change.”