he doesn’t admit it to herself at first that she loves Tea Cake, she is actually starting to fall in love with him. She has found her first true love and will go through many trials and tribulations to discover what true love really is.After going to a picnic dressed in bright colors, which Tea Cake encourages Janie to wear, she realizes that she is now past Jody and her rebirth has begun. The matrimony of Tea Cake and Janie takes place and the two decide to settle in Jacksonville. Janie loves the idea of marrying Tea Cake, but she does mature enough to have her doubts about him when he unexpectedly leaves the house with two hundred dollars of her money without telling her about it. She has gone through two rough marriages and she had to expect the worst from Tea Cake as well. “Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark.” (Hurston: 120). Her thoughts about Tea Cake were wrong, since he would come back to Janie for good, unlike a story she heard about a old lady named Mrs. Tyler, who was in a similar type of relationship with a younger man. Her lover, Who Flung abandoned her because he just wanted her money. However, Tea Cake explained that he was just treating people to a free meal since he felt like a millionaire with all that money in his pocket and he would eventually pay back the money in full. She hadn’t developed full trust in Tea Cake yet, but after he told her the circumstance he was in as the sun was gleaming in their eyes, Janie would now trust him with her life. The couple developed a fine relationship and would eventually move into the Everglades on the muck to work for wages. However, a devastating hurricane hit the town. Tea Cake saved Janie from drowning to her death, but would be bitten by a mad dog giving him rabies. Janie would be put in a situation where she would have to kill Tea Cake before...
