Assignment task: In the last paragraph of the novel, Hurston returns to the symbol of the "horizon" that she had invoked in the novel's first paragraph. As Janie sits down on her bed, she feels Tea Cake's presence in the rays of the setting sun that shine against her bedroom wall. Janie then pulls in the horizon and drapes it over her body. On page 193:
Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl. Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be Dead until she herself finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled if from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much life was in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see (193).
How has the "horizon" functioned as a symbol in this novel?
Why is Janie described as having "pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net" and then "draped it over her shoulder" What could that mean?