- All's Well That Ends Well
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- Henry IV, Part 2
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Janie is brought before a jury after Tea Cake's death. Her friends all abandon her, siding with her deceased husband instead — all except Dr. Simmons, who testifies in her favor and explains the situation. And finally, Janie herself speaks, recounting the entire story.
While readers might expect Hurston to relate this scene in dialect, she instead combines narration and dialogue. In other words, the novel's two primary voices converge in Janie's testimony — and this raises questions about the book's structure, including its frame story. Do Janie and the omniscient narrator differ? Janie explains herself to the jury just…