Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. She had to hug him tight for soon he would be gone, and she had to tell him for the last time.
Janie didn’t want to shoot him but had to too protect herself. This shows how much she really cared about him and that he was what she was looking for throughout the whole book.
A big burst of thunder and lightning that trampled over the roof of the house. So Tea Cake and Motor stopped playing.
They chose to ignore the warning signs and stay behind instead of leaving somewhere safe.
Before the week was over he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him in possession. No brutal beating at all. He just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss.
He was jealous and chose violence towards her instead of talking to her about things.
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 to her own race.
“Yeah, you did.” She didn’t say this because she believed it. She wanted to hear his denial.
She wanted to be reassured because she was still a little insecure.
“Ah naw, honey. Ah laks it. It’s mo’ nicer than settin’ round dese quarters all day. Clerkin’ in dat store wuz hard, but heah, we ain’t got nothin’ tuh do but do our work and come home and love.”
Janie likes working in the field with Tea Cake.
Tea Cake must be hunting all over the city for that fish. She kept that thought in front of her in order not to think too much.
Janie wanted to trust Tea Cake instead of thinking the worst.
t was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad. Tea Cake and Mrs. Mayor Starks! All the men that she could get, and fooling with somebody like Tea Cake! Another thing, Joe Starks hadn’t been dead but nine months and here she goes sashaying off to a picnic in pink linen.
The town was mad at Janie for being with a younger man like Tea Cake so little time after Joe died.
He’s just saying anything for the time being, feeling he’s got me so I’ll b’lieve him
She was still scared from her past relationships.
He set it up and began to show her and she found herself glowing inside.
Tea Cake treats her fairly and that makes her feel happy.
She sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.
She showed up to the funeral looking sad but deep down she was happy that she was finally free.
“Ah’d rather be dead than for Jody tuh think Ah’d hurt him,” she sobbed to Pheoby. “It ain’t always been too pleasant, ’cause you know how Joe worships de works of his own hands, but God in heben knows Ah wouldn’t do one thing tuh hurt nobody.
Even though Jody mistreats her she would never hurt him.
You big-bellies round here and put out a lot of brag, but ’tain’t nothin’ to it but yo’ big voice. Humph! Talkin’ ’bout me lookin’ old! When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life.”
She’s finally standing up to his words.
And one night he had caught Walter standing behind Janie and brushing the back of his hand back and forth across the loose end of her braid ever so lightly so as to enjoy the feel of it without Janie knowing what he was doing. Joe was at the back of the store and Walter didn’t see him. He felt like rushing forth with the meat knife and chopping off the offending hand. That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store.
He doesn’t care about Janie’s feelings but when someone else gives her attention, even without her knowing, he gets controlling.
Over, Janie? I god, Ah ain’t even started good. Ah told you in de very first beginnin’ dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, ’cause dat makes uh big woman outa you.” A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. She felt far away from things and lonely.
It shows that he doesn’t care about her feelings, making her feel more lonely and less hopeful that she will feel love.
Mah fust wife never bothered me ’bout choppin’ no wood nohow.
Logan is comparing Janie to his first wife because he wants more from her and feels like she shouldn’t be asking a lot from him.
But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin.
She waited for love to grow but instead felt more lonely.
Janie letting Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost
She envisioned what it would be like and after kissing him she realized that it wasn’t how she thought it would be.