Octavia, you made some really great points. More specifically your point about Janie and Phoeby's relationship. I hadn't thought about it before and I suppose I just glazed over Willis's reading or just blindly accepted her reading of their relationship.
Sisterhood is certainly an important theme in Hurston's novel, as well as patriarchal ideologies. I believe that, atht e novels end, Phoeby's newly felt agency was due to the telling of both her friend's resilience and strength against the oppressive men in her life. This, in my opinion, is what allowed Phoeby the strength to want to stand up to her husband, even if it's just going fishing with him which can be assumed doesn't happen.
So yes, I agree with you Octavia, that sisterhood is just as an important theme as patriarchy in Hurston's novel.
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