The novel begins as Janie the main character returns to her home town. The gossips watching her on the porch wonder why she’s back, and if “Tea Cake” has taken all her money, leaving her no option but to return home. Her friend Pheoby Watson comes over to talk to Janie and find out what has happened. Pheoby doesn’t hold back telling, what happened on her search for happiness and how she had been abandoned by her parents and raised by her grandmother. She wanted Janie to choose a stable man to marry. Her grandmother wanted to know that she would be taken care of before she died. Her grandmother didn’t listen to what Janie wanted and found her an older man named Logan Killicks that she worked for instead of being his wife. She later married Joe Starks; a man that she thought was going to be what she had always wanted. After he was elected Mayor, he changed and became mean and abusive. The love that she wanted so bad he couldn’t give. His professional life as a Mayor was great where he had to solve the town’s problems but, he couldn’t love the way she wanted. Don’t we all know someone like this? She was married to him for 20 years and after his death she was wealthy. Men seeing a rich women came from all over to see her. After these men, Janie fell in love with a younger man known as “Tea Cake” he was a bean picker that didn’t have much money. She owned the store that her husband ran and one day “Tea Cake” walked in, his real name was Vergible Woods. He taught her how to play checkers and let her be herself by saying what she felt. Tea Cake may have had a gambling problem as he takes her money to gamble and gets in fight. But he returns with three hundred dollars instead of two that he had taken from her clothes where she had the money hidden. They decided to move to the Everglades ’ where they could make money by day picking beans and by night by playing cards and gambling. Later, after a good year of picking beans they decided to stay another year. As the year passed they saw Indians moving due to a hurricane. The hurricane came a few days later and just a bought killed both of them. During their struggle to stay a live “Tea Cake” was bitten by a dog. Which later he became ill and started having hallucinations that Janie was trying to kill him. He wasn’t to drink water and when he did he would go mad and try and kill her. He was so worried about her that he had a gun under his pillow. But Janie found the gun and got her rifle ready. After he returned from the outhouse he went for his gun. Janie got hers and shot Tea Cake. He died in her lap. Mean while she had been giving tea Cake medicine and they were waiting on a serum. However the serum didn’t come in time. Janie went to jail and they decided she didn’t need to stay in jail long. The doctor testified that she had been in love with Tea Cake and had been giving him medicine. But there was nothing she could have done. That’s why Janie came back to town and without her husband that she had finally found love with. This was a great story a little drawn out at times, but very sad for Janie at least she had her friend Phobey Watson to come home too.
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