TEWWG pg 43

TEXT: Janie made her face laugh after a short pause.....It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things.

The motif of Janie's love being like a flowering plant appears again but this time the bloom has ceased. Just like Janie's first marriage her husband has stopped kissing her feet like her Nanny warned. Janie thought that Jody would be the an to put her love into bloom but after Jody told told the town his wife couldn't make a speach without her saying so she is in the same position as last time.