t it was time for a change and to take a chance in attempt to attain love by her own means. Nanny would’ve disapproved of the big talk behind a black man like Jody Starks; however, he would create an even more financially stable setting for Janie to live in than in the marriage she set up Janie with the farmer, Logan Killicks.Marrying Joe without even divorcing Logan, she settles with him in her new life at Eatonville. He buys two hundred acres of land, quickly becoming mayor of the all-black town with Janie becoming Mrs. Mayor. She is forced to run the grocery store, which she doesn’t like and is often ordered around and ridiculed by her husband. Joe was now showing his true character since before they got married he said he would love her and treat her with the utmost respect, but this wasn’t the case at all. Living with the pain caused by her second husband for almost two decades, she realized that he wasn’t the man she was looking for. She was thirty-five now and was beginning to mature. “But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods-come and gone with the sun. She got nothing from Jody except what money could buy, and she was giving away what she didn’t value.” (Hurston: 76). More now than ever she realizes that Joe was a harsh and cold man she never loved. Also, this foreshadows Jody’s sickness and the chance for Janie to tell him that he was a stubborn old man that had covered his physical ailments by exploiting others just before he dies. Nine months after the death of Jody, without expecting a man to dazzle her into a relationship, Janie finds a young, nice-looking man who is fun to be with. “Well, Ah love tuh find out whut you think after sun-up tomorrow. Dis is just’ you’ night thought.” (Hurston: 105). After Tea Cake says this, Janie starts to realize that even though s...
