Double Consciousness

Double Consciousness emerges at the moment she married Starks. Janie was being watched now more than ever. She had a role in society and that was something she had to follow. Her role as a black woman was to be a wife, and a politician. As a black woman, she wasn’t supposed to speak with white people because this was just not right at all, people would think of her as wanting to be considered white, and if the women in the town weren’t supposed to speak with white people, neither was Janie. As a wife, she was supposed to do as her husband said. She had to be a housewife and had to have the food ready when her husband came home from work. In other words, she was supposed to be submissive. As a politician’s wife, she was supposed to be perfect in everything she did. She had to dress right and had to be a good role model for the rest of the town people.