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

99/260The chorus answered, “Bare, bare fat.”“What killed this man?”“Bare, bare fat.”“What killed this man?”“Bare, bare fat.”“Who’ll stand his funeral?”“We!!!!!”“Well, all right now.”So he picked out the eyes in the ceremonial way and the feast wenton. The yaller mule was gone from the town except for the porch talk,and for the children visiting his bleaching bones now and then in thespirit of adventure.Joe returned to the store full of pleasure and good humor but hedidn’t want Janie to notice it because he saw that she was sullen andhe resented that. She had no right to be, the way he thought thingsout. She wasn’t even appreciative of his efforts and she had plentycause to be. Here he was just pouring honor all over her; building ahigh chair for her to sit in and overlook the world and she here poutingover it! Not that he wanted anybody else, but just too many womenwould be glad to be in her place. He ought to box her jaws! But hedidn’t feel like fighting today, so he made an attack upon her positionbackhand.