Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Tea Cake doesn’t pressure Janie to do anything she doesn’t want to do. Janie feels comfortable with their relationship because she doesn’t feel obligated to just please Tea Cake, she feels genuinely happy with her life right now.

The American Dream really sets into Janie’s life when she and Tea Cake find great employment and amazing friends in the Everglades. Janie feels carefree, like there’s nothing on earth that could ruin their peaceful, pleasant lifestyle. Soon however she learns what it really means to love someone. She begins to feel emotions like jealousy and that brings her to become menacing and threaten to beat the man she loved. When Tea Cake reassures her that nobody could come between their marriage, her temper is alleviated and she relaxes and brightens up.

Although Tea Cake later became deathly ill from rabies and toward the end of his life he treated Janie horribly, she was still able to stay optimistic about their love and continued to remain by his side until the end. Overall, Janie was able to successfully live the American Dream for a short while. She discovered who she really was and married a man for love instead of what her grandmother had always implanted in her mind. She had a caring husband, a lovely place to live, and she was happier than she had ever been. Tea Cake was able to bring out the inner Janie she had been hiding all her life. For doing that Janie was both thankful and grateful to Tea Cake.