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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 back there and scornful of the others.”

As a reader it’s frustrating to see Janie living in this kind of enviroment, while she may enjoy it, she had a great life before she moved to the everglades, she had a big house, people who she knew, and a store. I feel like Janie is wasting her life, but I guess if she enjoys it then it is the appropriote thing for her to do. I think part of her feels like she should be back home, but another part of her is enjoying the everglades and being with Tea Cake. It does seem like Janie wouldn’t mind if she was back in her old home, she keeps saying how the muck is dull and boring in the summertime.