Journal #4- Their Eyes Were Watching God

For this journal I decided to focus on the passage on page 77, the third paragraph.
Hurston uses simple sentences to describe how Janie is seeing that Joe has basically
let go of himself. She uses the words, "squatted" to describe how he walked, also she
describes his belly as "prosperous-looking". Hurston is showing how he is not the same
person he was and Janie, no matter how Joe tries to make her feel, is in fact aware of
that. Hurston also shows his change in character in the second line of this passage,
"He just stood in front of a chair and fell in it", this shows how now he's more careless.
The overall tone changes about how Joe is now percieved by Janie. He is no
longer this powerful man who is in charge of everything. In the middle of the passage
Hurston writes, "He squatted over his ankles when he walked", this line emphazises the
sound "ck". This makes me think of how Joe's apperance change as well as his personality
change, and also how Janie thinks of him now as well.