Janie is alive during a time in which her circumstances of living are not exactly desirable: she is a black woman during a time when both black people and women were second class citizens. Janie is also missing parental units and she herself comes from something broken. Despite all of these difficulties, Janie is a strong person. I think that she understands that there are factors in her life that she cannot change, no matter how much she may want to, and because of this, she does not fight, understanding that she does not want to cause more damage. But she is also not completely sedentary. There times when she fights back, because she knows that she can, like when she insults Jody after he has been insulting her for years. And she knows what she wants, and she is not afraid of this, of what others think of her. Her one true desire seems to be love, and regardless of whether or not this is something she can achieve and whether or not it is worth working so hard to achieve, I appreciate that she is not willing to give up, regardless of what everyone around her says.
Janie is not without faults. She makes rash decisions and does not always think about those around her and is not always the kindest person, but all in all she is not an awful person and I think she is someone that many people can find something to admire in.
