Janie Conversation Analysis

Joe and Janie engaged in many conversations throughout their time together. One day, they get into an argument. The argument resulted in the fact that Janie could not find any pig's feet for a customer. Janie has told Joe that she ordered a whole keg of pig's feet the day before but when the customer went to get some, there wasn't any left. Joe then asked Janie where the bill for the pig's feet was. Janie replied that it's either on the nail or on his desk. Joe said that it was in neither places and he accused Janie for being incompetent. Months later, after Joe dies, Janie meets a man by the name of Vergible Woods also known as Tea Cake. She becomes fond of him and they have a very pleasant conversation. There are many differences and similarities between Joe's conversation with Janie and Tea Cake's conversation with Janie and they both show Janie's evolving relationship with men in many ways. On page 71, in lines 11-13 Joe tells Janie exactly how he feels about her and all women in general. Janie tries to tell Joe that she knows several things too and that
Now that Tea Cake has made his arrival into her life, Janie feels like he can be the answer to her desire. I believe that line 45 in Janie's conversation with Tea Cake shows the slow evolvement of Janie's desire. The following is said in line 45: "They scrambled and upset the board and laughed at that". The reason why this line shows the evolvement of Janie's desire is because for the first time in years, Janie has finally laughed. Janie hasn't felt the way she did when she was with Tea Cake in a long time. She was finally happy and liberated. She felt a sense of comfort with Tea Cake, something that she didn't feel with Joe after they moved to Eatonville. Due to this transition from being isolated with Joe to feeling a sense of comfort with Tea Cake, Janie begins to take a step towards her true desires with Tea Cake by her