Simile: "Logan held his wad of tobacco real still in his jaw like a thermometer of his feelings while he studied Janie's face and waited for her to say something." (p27)
-I think that possibly represents him not exactly waiting for Janie to say something, but mainly waiting for her to say something back. Maybe even daring her to speak out in protest against him. There hasn't been any major problems between them, and I think that this could be foreshadowing something to come since it sounds like he might want her to start doing things and labor that Janie is not used to.
Tone: "...and dis man Ah'm talkin' 'bout is got uh mule all gentled up so even uh woman kin handle 'im." (p27)
-I am not quite sure what you would call it, (maybe even just plot or the development of Logan's character since I don't think he has really changed) but I definetly felt when I read this that the tone had changed, for at least a solid amount of time, to a definitely more serious note. This also seems to be used by the author to get us ready for the fact that this book isn't going to be happy and gentle all the way through.
Conflict: " 'You behind a plow! You ain't got no mo' business wid uh plow than uh hog is got wid uh holiday!" (p29)
-Besides the fact that this in part is a simile/comparison, I can see already the conflict that comes out of Joe's statement here. Janie has had thoughts and ideas of how married life is supposed to be, and this directly opposes her husband's growing sense of how things are going to start changing in their marriage. This is not necessarily a character conflict, but a conflict of ideas that Janie now has in her mind that the author is using to directly feed into something else.
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