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1. In the first quote, it talks about a man's wish. it talks about how every man has a different wish but in the end they all wish for something. some find what they're wishing for and some don't. It's talking about how men remember everything and can't let things go. How women can remember the things that they want to remember. "The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."(page 1) 

2. The second quote describes janie and what she is thinking and doing. She's lying under a pear tree observing her surroundings. We see what she sees. She's watching a bee on a flower. how the bee sucks the nutrients out of the flower and the ground feels that. She looks at that one thing in nature and compares it to a marriage. The marriage takes effort and hard work to maintain. just like the life of a bee.