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” Janie is wharever Ah wants tuh be. Dat’s de kind uh wife she is and Ah love her for it.”
This quote is a great example of why Janie is a great wife and person, and why she was willing to marry Tea Cake. I think that this also shows she is a very ambitious [...]

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” Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself. What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes? The crowd of people around her and a dice game on her floor! She was sorry for her friends [...]

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” Near eleven o’clock she remembered a  piece of pound cake she had put away. Tea cake went out to the lemon tree at the corner of the kitchen and picked some lemons and squeezed them for her. So they had lemonade too.”
Although Hurston may not have meant to do this, this quote is very [...]

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” After that night Jody moved his things and slept in a room downstairs. He didn’t really hate Janie, but he wanted her to think so.”
I think it is really selfish of Jody to make Janie feel so bad about herself. As Janie put it, why should Joe be so mad at her for making [...]

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I think that Janie has to handle way too much for her age, only being 16. For instance, she has to travel with her husband who’s about 20 years older than herself, and help him with a buisness negiotiation.  ” Lemme speak to mah wife an Ah’m goin’ see de man. You cannnot have no [...]

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” Most of dese zigaboos is so het up over yo’ buisness till they liable to hurry theyself to Judgement to find out about you if they don’t soon know.”
The dialogue that Pheoby and Janie use is very southern, considering that they’re from the south that’s not too unusual. The way the author portrays the [...]

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