Janie’s treatment of Tea Cake shows that she does not consider him to be suitable for a serious relationship. In a sense, she is using him so that she can have fun.
Janie’s progress as a person is still being overshadowed by her fear of being judged by her community. She had to make Tea Cake leave after their night at the lake because she knows what people will say if they find out.
Janie’s fears about Tea Cake are put at ease when he comes back with the car he bought. By getting the car and announcing his intention to take her out in public, he is making a declaration of commitment. The question of Janie’s readiness to remarry however, is still undecided.
Chapt. 12 This chapter revealed that Janie’s worries were well placed. The town is horrfied that she is dating Tea Cake because it ruins their image of her. Since her aarrival in
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With Logan and Jody, she had nothing to lose by trusting them. Both marriages were an improvement from the situations she was in prior. However, she has just spent a period of time with freedom. That freedom has allowed her economic independence that she is relcutant to give up. Her worries were nit misplaced, as Tea Cake took her money for himself.
Ms. Tyler’s life seems to be a personal nightmare of Janie’s. Ms. Tyler is described as “dyed hair, newly straightened and her uncomfortable new false teeth, her leathery skin, blotchy with powder and her giggle. Her love affairs, affairs with boys in their late teens or early twenties for all of whom she spent her money on suits of clothes, shoes, watches and things like that and how they all left her as soon as their wants were satisfied.” All of Janie’s fears about her marriage to Tea Cake are personified in Ms. Tyler.
I think that Janie is to quick to trust Tea Cake. As soon as he won any money gambling, she gave up most of her economic independence by giving him information about her bank account.
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