Danbi's Deliberations

"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."  This passage depicts this beautiful spring day where Janie sits under a pear tree and watches a nature scene unfold before her, essentially becoming a woman and having a sexual awakening in the process. While reading this passage, what caught my attention was the image of a pear tree. Initially, I had kind of glazed over this detail but after talking about it in class, I was drawn to its symbolism and what it represented. It's important to note that this scene occurs during the spring which is already symbolic in itself. Spring often refers to a time of love, hope, youth, growth, and new beginnings. I think the season itself is already pretty relevant in how much the reader can connect its symbolism in the real world to events in the...