Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered

189/260So she didn’t cling to Janie Woods the woman. She paid homage toJanie’s Caucasian characteristics as such. And when she was withJanie she had a feeling of transmutation, as if she herself had becomewhiter and with straighter hair and she hated Tea Cake first for his defilementof divinity and next for his telling mockery of her. If she onlyknew something she could do about it! But she didn’t. Once she wascomplaining about the carryings-on at the jook and Tea Cake snapped,“Aw, don’t make God look so foolish—findin’ fault wid everything Hemade.”So Mrs. Turner frowned most of the time. She had so much to disapproveof. It didn’t affect Tea Cake and Janie too much. It just gavethem something to talk about in the summertime when everything wasdull on the muck. Otherwise they made little trips to Palm Beach, FortMyers and Fort Lauderdale for their fun. Before they realized it thesun was cooler and the crowds came pouring onto the muck again.