Tea Cake and Wedding Cake?

I really love this group of chapters because Janie finally found what she thought she was looking for. She found a man that is truly in love with her and treats her how she wants to be treated. I think how Tea Cake treats her is going to be too good to be true in the end, I think he is going to end up betraying her.

While reading Janie's description of the Everglades my mind immediately went back to the pear tree. The Everglades are fertile nature and they seem to symbolize her and Tea Cake's love-just like the pear tree symbolized love to Janie when she was a teenager. So I think The Everglades is supposed to go back to the pear tree from the beginning of the book.

 


Janie compares her love for Tea Cake to learning the "Maiden" language all over again. I take this to mean that he speaks how she spoke when she was younger and being with Jody she lost this way of speaking. Now that she is with Tea Cake and he speaks it around her, she is picking back up on it. Janie loves the language that Nannie spoke to her growing up and neither of her previous husbands spoke it because they saw it as "low class" and they forced her to not speak it,but Tea Cake speaks it and she picks up on it because she is in love with him and the language.