The story itself, ignoring the themes which will be covered later is a bit interesting to me in the structure. From the start, since we know Janie is a old woman telling the story there isn’t really stakes to the plot. It genuinely does feel like you’re being told a story from a real person. This novel, relies a lot on the lessons and themes of marriage that the plot by itself isn’t gripping. You know since there …show more content…
Now, despite the title featuring god this is not a particularly religious story. There is a title drop mid way through, but only at that one point is a higher being really mentioned in focus. Rather, we look at different marriage structures. The first partner Logan Killicks looks into arranged marriage. As depicted in the novel, while they rely on each other for work love isn’t really there. This leaves Janie unsatisfied due to her image of unconditional love. This leads to her running off with our second partner Jody Starks. This is very much showing the trophy wife situation, while she technically runs a store she very much only exists to legitimize Jody Starks as a “successful” man. This too, is shown to leave her even more unsatisfied. We soon reach our third and final partner Tea Cake. This looks more towards the idealized marriage most people want, while they have their scrapes it is founded and holds to a core of genuine affection for the other