in this chapter janies husband kinda wins her heart and loses it at the same when he buys the guys mule just to give it some reast so it wont be worked to death, but then she gives a short speech about how noble he was and everyone is amazed at her talking skills, everybody except her husband so she feels like she was rejected

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the ship in the distance represents a dream that is alwas there and can be reached but is also way out of reach. The boat that gets drawn in by tide are the dreams that we achieve by some uncontrolable force, like the tide. then there is the sad man that can never achieve anything because he plainly sucks or has just the worst luck. then woman, in this time,werent really able to get anything they wanted, so if they couldnt get something they would just forget about it. and then there were the things they liked which they can choose to rebe ber forever because even though they dont own the actual thing or dont have a thing similar to this whatever. they have their imagination and the ability to make it real through thought.