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In one of the earlier chapters when Janie embarrassed Jody in front of his friends something completely changed inside of him. After that comment he became completely transformed, and he was never quite the same. It got to so bad that he became physically ill, and in chapters 8-10 he unfortunately died. Although Janie felt guilty and had pity for him, she felt this new sense of freedom. For the past twenty years she had to hold herself back from being the “real” Janie; she had to fit the image of what the mayor’s wife should be. However, with Jody gone she let her hair down and did whatever she wanted.

On page 95 a man named Tea Cake/Vergible Woods comes into the store while Janie is working. Everyone else is at a game, so the store is completely empty besides the two of them. When he asks her to play a game of checkers she replies that she doesn’t know how, so he decides to show her. “He set it up and began to show her and she found herself glowing inside. Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play. That was even nice.” Finally Janie is being respected and treated like a normal person, instead of just being pushed off to the side and being called a woman. After twenty years of neglect from her husband she is finally starting to feel more appreciated. It seems as if she is finally interested in someone since Joe died. However, in the first chapter before Janie goes into her flashback she mentions to her friend that Tea Cake was gone and left her, so it makes me wonder what might cause this to happen..

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