She was trying to hover him as he closed his teeth in the flesh of her forearm. They came down heavily like that. Janie struggled to a sitting position and pried the dead Tea Cake’s teeth from her arm.
Tea Cake bites Janie and he has rabies so she could probably get rabies too now.
They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once.
Tea Cake got bit by a wild dog that probably has rabies. It isn’t looking too good for him.
Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him.
It seems like Tea Cake is acting like Janie’s past husbands. His insecurities are leading to him hitting Janie.
White doctors always gits mah money. Ah don’t go in no nigger store tuh buy nothin’ neither. Colored folks don’t know nothin’ ’bout no business. Deliver me!”
Mrs. Turner is racist and doesn’t want anything to do with African Americans because she is a little more lighter than them.
Janie learned what it felt like to be jealous. A little chunky girl took to picking a play out of Tea Cake in the fields and in the quarters.
Janie has never felt jealous before. This shows how much she really liked Tea Cake.
The house was full of people every night. That is, all around the doorstep was full. Some were there to hear Tea Cake pick the box; some came to talk and tell stories, but most of them came to get into whatever game was going on or might go on.
The Everglades are a lot more lively than Eatonville. Janie is able to have conversations and enjoy her time with a lot more people.
Fact is, she decided to treat him so cold if he ever did foot the place that he’d be sure not to come hanging around there again.
Janie was trying to forget about the feelings she is having for Tea cake by pushing him away and acting cold to him.
She looked him over and got little thrills from every one of his good points. Those full, lazy eyes with the lashes curling sharply away like drawn scimitars. The lean, over-padded shoulders and narrow waist. Even nice!
Janie is more excited by Tea Cake and is noticing all his features. Janie is starting to like Tea Cake.
The years took all the fight out of Janie’s face. For a while she thought it was gone from her soul. No matter what Jody did, she said nothing.
Janie was not happy with Joe. She didn’t want to argue and didn’t have any motivation to go against Joe.
“You gettin’ too moufy, Janie,” Starks told her. “Go fetch me de checker-board and de checkers. Sam Watson, you’se mah fish.”
Joe isn’t as nice as he seemed in the beginning. He isn’t letting Janie speak what she wants.
It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things.
Janie was told to give a speech but Joe said that she doesn’t know anything about giving speeches and that her place is in the home. He basically talked down on her and her ability to give a speech.
Janie, if you think Ah aims to tole you off and make a dog outa you, youse wrong. Ah wants to make a wife outa you.”
Joe wants to make Janie his wife but she is already married to Logan. Joe is making Janie rethink her marriage with Logan.
She didn’t say anything to match up with Nanny’s gladness either. She just fell on a chair with her hips and sat there. Between the biscuits and her beaming pride Nanny didn’t notice for a minute.
Even though Janie got married she isn’t happy like her grandma. I don’t think Janie wants to get married.
“Yeah, Janie, youse got yo’ womanhood on yuh. So Ah mout ez well tell yuh whut Ah been savin’ up for uh spell. Ah wants to see you married right away.”
Janie’s grandma wants her to get married so she doesn’t get raped like her mom and grandma. I could see that the grandma is trying to protect her but she shouldn’t think that will automatically happen to her too.