not inferiors. So, Janie was not happy once again with her situation.Janie kept on searching for this hidden happieness that she knew she wanted, but could not find. She soon met Tea Cake. A man that made her laugh, made her happy, and made her feel as though she was the same as everybody else. “Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwning grins over his shoulder. The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and then she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp.” Tea Cake and Janie obviously shared a special love between them as their relationship grew. The things he did for her made her feel unbelievable. They did things she had never even thought of. Tea Cake took her places she had never been. “To Janie’s strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new.” Janie went to many new places and met many new people that she would’ve never met had she stayed with Logan or stayed in Eatonville with Joe. She would’ve just kept on living the same life...never doing anything new with the same boring people. With Tea Cake, Janie began to work, and to feel a certain freedom she had never felt before. Janie found what she was looking for. She searched all her life to find what was within herself, and one special person was all that was needed to bring it out in her. Even though her and Tea Cake’s relationship ended in a tragedy, she knew that he really loved her for who she was. She didn’t need to be with him for protection, or she didn’t need to be the leading lady of a town or a mayor’s wife, she just needed the right kind of love and affection to bring out what was best in her. ...
