girl, and that was how she came to bare Janie's mother. When Nanny catches Janie kissing a "trashy n-----, breath-and-britches" young man whom she says will be "usin' [Janie's] body to wipe his foots on" (Hurston 12), she immediately marries Janie off to Logan Killicks, a wealthy farmer in the town. Janie doesn't love Logan, but that doesn't matter to Nanny, as long as her grandchild is protected. When Janie comes to tell her grandmother that she still doesn't love Logan after three months of marriage, Nanny says, "you come heah wid yo' mouf full uh foolishness on uh busy day. Heah you got uh prop tuh lean on all yo' bawn days, and big protection, and everybody got tuh tip dey hat tuh you and call you Mis' Killicks, and you come worryin' me 'bout love" (Hurston 22) Nanny doesn't care whether or not Janie's in love, so long as she doesn't have to worry about her financial situation. The main goal of the ex-slaves was to be able to survive in the world, and that meant money to pay for their survival. Many of them either stayed with their old masters, bought farms of their own, or moved North in pursuit of other vocations (Hoobler 51). Nanny wanted Janie to be able to survive in her community. She tells Janie that "De n----- woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah kin see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you" (Hurston 14). Nanny may want society to change for Janie, but she still won't let her granddaughter make her own decisions about her life. Nanny is trying to follow her dream of affluence and true happiness through her granddaughter, Janie. Many blacks did this by moving North for better work and living standards. What they found when they got there was that racism doesn't stay in just one place. They still had a difficult time finding work and a worse time overcoming goals.
             The author uses Pheoby as an example of women who are beginning to show a progression toward the pursuit of their dreams. She is beginning to fol...