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Their Eyes Were Watching God 42P 71papers on dat nail! All you got tuh do is mind me. How come youcan't do lak Ah tell yuh?""You sho loves to tell me whut to do, but Ah can't tell younothin' Ah see!""Dat's 'cause you need tellin'," he rejoined hotly. "It wouldbe pitiful if Ah didn't. Somebody got to think for women andchillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think nonetheirselves.""Ah knows uh few things, and womenfolks thinks sometimestoo!""Aw naw they don't. They just think they's thinkin'. WhenAh see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things anddon't understand one."Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about theinside state of her marriage. Time came when she fought backwith her tongue as best she could, but it didn't do her any good.It just made Joe do more. He wanted her submission and he'dkeep on fighting until he felt he had it.So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned tohush. The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to livingin the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever companycame to visit, but it never went back inside the bedroom again. Soshe put something in there to represent the spirit like a VirginMary image in a church. The bed was no longer a daisy-field forher and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid downwhen she was sleepy and tired.She wasn't petal-open anymore with him. She was twentyfourand seven years married when she knew. She found that outone day when he slapped her face in the kitchen. It happenedover one of those dinners that chasten all women sometimes.They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchendwellingfiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their