Quote:
"Dem wuz railroad hands and dey womenfolks. You ain't usetuh folks lak dat and Ah wuz skeered you might git all mad and quit me for takin' you 'mongst 'em...Befo' us got married Ah made up mah mind not tuh let you see no commonness in me... 'Tain't mah notion tuh drag you down wid me."
"Looka heah, Tea Cake, if you ever go off from me and have a good time lak dat and then come back heah tellin' me how nice Ah is, Ah specks tuh kill yuh dead. You heah me."
"So you aims tuh partake wid everything, hunh?"
"Yeah, Tea Cake, don't keer what it is."
Pg. 124
Comment:
(E) This long passage is a dialogue between Tea Cake and Janie. In these quotes, the couple is having a conversation about Janie's participation in Tea Cake's life. Tea Cake underestimates Janie by thinking that she doesn't want to party with him. Tea Cake shows a lot of love for her with this but Janie reassures him not to underestimate her. Janie needs and wants him to understand that through whatever they go through, she has his back. She loves him.
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