In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the reader is introduced to the character Janie. As the story progresses the reader learns that Jamie isn’t the best when comes to picking men, until she meets Tea Cake. Among the three men she married how did she know that Tea Cake was the best? In orde...

In the poem Wedding Ring, Denise Levertov starts by saying “My wedding ring lies in a basket as if at the bottom of a well. Nothing will come to fish it back up and onto my finger again”. Right away she starts us off lonely, the bottom of a well is a dark and hopeless place, ...