One pattern I noticed was that Hurston switches to third-person objective narration when describing some minor characters.
Example: pg. 52 "Matt realizes that they have tricked him again and the laughter makes him mad and when he gets mad he stammers".
Pg. 68 "She is parading and blushing at the same time"
Another pattern in chapters 5 & 6 was that Joe Starks is compared to a slave owner/driver by the townspeople a few times.
Example: pg 49. "You kin feel a switch in his hand when he's talkin' to yuh,".
Pg. 47. "take that house of his for instance...the rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the 'big house.'"
The last pattern I noticed was that the stage that the tree or bloom was in seemed to founded with how Janie felt about her marriage.
Pg 35 & 40 the tree is described as a "huge/big live oak tree" so the marriage is thriving
Pg 43 describes Joe degrading her for the first time as "that took the bloom off things". So this degrading of Janie as taken away some of the beauty of her marriage, but not destroyed ir
Pg 72 after Joe slaps her she describes it as "she had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man". This is used to show that her perfect marriage is gone, so she has no more pollen for her bee...
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