Tea cake passes away and Janie realizes that Eatonville is just her memories of loss

Tea cake end up threatening Janie with a pistol.

A massive hurricane hits as Janie and tea cake get stuck in it

Teak cake and Janie get revenge by punishing Mrs turner for her colorist views and for trying to break their marriage

Tea cake and Janie stay on the “muck” after the harvest where they interact with their neighbors who show internalized racism

A worker named Nunkie is introduced and flirts and touches tea cake constantly in the Field's

Unlike Janie’s previous marriages her and tea cake work together in the fields and tea cake shows Janie how to shoot

Tea cake disappears for a day with money that Janie had shown him

The towns people are outraged by Janie seeing teacake

Janie meets tea cake and she pursues her “love game” with tea cake

Yea cake asks to play checkers, Joe forbids her from playing showing a shift towards her freedom

Janie has to put on a face feeling sad that Joe is gone tho in the end she feels free

As Janie and Joe go on a trip their relationship starts to become complicated as Joe tries to hide her and disrespect her

Jody builds a house symbolizing his authority and success of being different from the towns people

Janie is realizing the disrespect nut still afraid to speak up

Janie finally seems to be standing up after herself

Joe is dying and they think Janie had something to do with it

Logan offers no romance or dreams leaving him is her first real act of independence

Nanny outlines her view that black women are “branches without roots”

Nanny’s actions are driven by her traumatic past as an enslaved person.