Their Eyes are Watching God Chapters 13-15

When Janie and Tea Cake first arrive at Everglades, and they get settled in in their house by the lake, she first starts off just cooking and hunting for Tea Cake. He begins to come home randomly in the middle of the day to talk to Janie, and Janie suspects that he has doubts that she is faithful to him. He explains that he just misses not seeing her that much, and all day is way to long to go without her and asks her to come out and get a job mucking with him. She is quick to take this offer. At first, it is probably because she was extremely lonely just sitting at the house all day cooking beans and desserts for Tea Cake by herself, waiting for the night time festivities to come along. The main reason she agreed so quickly was because this was sort of like a checkers moment. She had never been asked to play checkers before and when he first asked her too she was so excited to do it. She had never been asked to come and work with someone because they wanted to spend more time with them. Also, this was sort of like another way she could live her life. She was doing what was out of the norm for someone like her, who used to live in the white house and be the mayors wife. This working was different from the work she did with Logan and Jody because he actually asked her if she wanted to do this instead of buying her a mule to make her work and forcing her to spend all hours at the store.