What Reason Does Missie May Give For Cheating?

7) What reason does Missie May give for cheating? Who is to blame? Missie May cheated on her husband, Joe, to get him gold money. After Joe caught her, she said, “Oh Joe, honey, he said he wuz gointer give me dat gold money and he jes’ kept on after me -” (Hurston 94). Missie May cheated on her husband with Mister Otis D. Slemmons. Missie May and Joe were talking about how rich Otis was. Joe said, Wisht Ah had a build on me lak him got. He ain’t puzzle-gutted, honey. He jes’ got a corperation. Dat make ‘m look lak a rich white man. All rich mens is got some belly on ‘em” (Hurston 89). Joe also told him wife, “He’s got a five-dollar gold piece for a stick-pin and he got a ten-dollar gold piece on his watch chain and his mouf is jes’ crammed full of gold teeth. Sho wisht it wuz mine” (Hurston 90). By Joe saying that he wished all those gold pieces were his, Missie May took it into her hands to get a gold piece for her husband. She felt that he deserved a gold piece. Thus, she cheated with a man who would get
Whenever the sun is high in the sky, Joe acts as if the cheating never occurred. As soon as the sun rose, when Missie May was not making breakfast like every other morning, Joe said, “Missie May, ain’t you gonna fix me no breatfus’” (Hurston 94). While the sun was up, they went back to the normal routine; however, when the sun was setting or gone, “There were not more Saturday romps. No ringing silver dollars to stack beside her plate. No pockets to rifle. In fact the yellow coin in his trousers was like a monster hiding in the cave of his pockets to destroy her” (Hurston 95). The narrator explains, “The sun, hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning” (Hurston 95). From this quotation, I think it is clear that the sun was Missie May’s hope. The sun was her hero, forcing her to get up every morning for Joe; for their