EN266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eatonville, Florida, Roustabout, Alice Walker
Document Summary
What it means to be american (emerson and whitman) Eatonville, florida is a real place still. Horrors of slavery, fragmented violence, culture that"s been destroyed is in reformation after the civil war. Orlando, not treated equally to white folks. Migrant workers: sugar cane fields in florida, still part of the present. Tea cake and janie end up in palm beach. The florida keys also key to the poetry setting. Each step along the way she is judged for this. Her three husbands all had different expectations of her, but all. Janie given multiple chances to reinvent herself and start a new were centralized around work. Tea cake is drastically different, he uses her for what she can do for him, not as much vice versa. She represents him with his key to america, a kingdom. His work ethic is different, different method of acquiring success: spontaneity and luck. Potential and grown, ideals of tea cake are described.
