Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. [Janie] was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid. Write a paragraph to explain why Janie was moved so deeply by the “marriage” she witnessed between the bee and the blossoms.

Answer 1

Answer:

Because for her this represented the idealization of love and what she seeks in a romance.

Explanation:

The text shown in the question above is an excerpt from the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God" where we meet the character Janie, who, while trying to dream of love and romance, finds herself trapped in unhappy marriages, where she is exploited and her position as a woman is devalued.

The excerpt shows what Janie's vision of marriage was like, before she was married. When she observes the reciprocity and intimacy between the bee and the flower, she sees this encounter as the idealization of love and romance. She is thrilled to watch the bee and the flower, because that's what she expects from a wedding and that's the kind of experience she wants to have.