arranged marriage affects both the protagonist and the reader. After learning that she must marry Logan Killicks, Janie responds, "naw, Nanny, no ma'am! Is dat what he been hangin' round here for? He look like some old skullhead in de graveyard" (13). Similes of death, foreshadow the sterile, love-less relationship that is to develop between Logan and Janie. Janie wondered if "marriage compelled love, like the sun the day, (21) but even Logan's stern last name, Killicks, suggested that it did not. Logan's house is compared to a stump in the middle of the woods and is "absent of flavor." There is no life in these images, only symbols of destruction and decay. Janie soon learns, that marri
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