Tea Cake crumpled as his bullet buried itself in the joist over Janie’s head. Janie saw the look on his face and leaped forward as he crashed forward in her arms.
He tried to kill her but she had to defend herself so she ended up shooting him and killing him.
How kin you set and see yo’ wife all trompled on? You ain’t no kinda man at all. You seen dat Tea Cake shove me down! Yes you did! You ain’t raised yo’ hand tuh do nothin’ about it.”
They’re shaming turner because he is letting everyone trample over his wife and they are saying he isn’t a real man.
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!”
She is very racist to her own race
All next day in the house and store she thought resisting thoughts about Tea Cake.
She’s unsure about getting with tea cake because of her experience with relationships in the past
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!
She finds him very attractive and is really interested in him
She kept the store in the same way except of evenings she sat on the porch and listened and sent Hezekiah in to wait on late custom
She now has freedom to do things that she wants without Joe stark verbally abusing her
She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair.
She felt free and that she could be herself
But way after a while he died. Lum found him under the big tree on his rawbony back with all four feet up in the air
The mule finally died and they found it lying on its back under a tree.