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Their Eyes Were Watching God 40 77Then one day she sat and watched the shadow of herselfgoing about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody,while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the windblowing through her hair and her clothes. Somebody near aboutmaking summertime out of lonesomeness.This was the first time it happened, but after a while it got socommon she ceased to be surprised. It was like a drug. In a wayit was good because it reconciled her to things. She got so shereceived all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks upurine and perfume with the same indifference.One day she noticed that Joe didn't sit down. He just stoodin front of a chair and fell in it. That made her look at him allover. Joe wasn't so young as he used to be. There was alreadysomething dead about him. He didn't rear back in his knees anylonger. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillnessat the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly thatused to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, saggedlike a load suspended from his loins. It didn't seem to be a part ofhim anymore. Eyes a little absent too.Jody must have noticed it too. Maybe, he had seen it longbefore Janie did, and had been fearing for her to see. Because hebegan to talk about her age all the time, as if he didn't want herto stay young while he grew old. It was always "You oughtathrow somethin' over yo' shoulders befo' you go outside. Youain't no young pullet no mo'. You'se uh ole hen now." One dayhe called her off the croquet grounds. "Dat's somethin' for deyoung folks, Janie, you out dere jumpin' round and won't beable tuh git out de bed tuhmorrer." If he thought to deceiveher, he was wrong. For the first time she could see a man's headnaked of its skull. Saw the dinning thoughts race in and outthrough the caves and promontories of his mind long beforethey darted out of the tunnel of his mouth. She saw he was