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What about Pheoby?
"Maybe so, Janie. Still and all Ah’d love tuh experience it for just one year. It look lak heben tuh me from where Ah’m at." (Chapter 12)
One will not be satisfied until they experience life for themselves
Even after Pheoby heard Janie's story, she not only enjoyed it, but she wanted to experience some of the things for herself.
She even tells Janie that she would convince her husband to take her fishing
Both characters relate in the way that they live vicariously through others. The characters remain caged within the world of Janie and Lindsey (Suzie in limbo; Pheoby as a housewife in Eatonville) the more they live through them and not for themselves.
In Their Eyes Were watching God we learn of Janie's life as she narrates it to her "kissing friend" Pheoby Watson
Pheoby is Janie's best confidant and Pheoby listens to all that Janie has to Say. She even wishes that she had the position Janie had as the Mayor's Wife
For example, her sister loses her virginity the way Suzie wish she could have.
Suzie is also living vicariously through others. She watches from the afterlife as her sister, Lindsey, grows up from & experiences things Suzie never made it to
Pheoby does not have the opportunities or freedom that Janie has, so she listens to Janie's stories as an outlet and a way to live life
What does it mean to live vicariously?
Who is Suzie?
Suzie Salmon is a character from the wonderful novel The Lovely Bones
vi·car·i·ous
: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another
~According to Merriam-Webster
She has been raped and murdered at age 14 by a serial killer neighbor and is narrating the story from limbo.
Suzie alternates from telling the story of her death in 1973, remembering her life, peek into the mind of her killer, and watching how her loved ones move on.