IOP Journal 4

Now that I have started looking at Janie's house with her new husband Jody, there seems to be a connection again from the house to the husband. This connection seems to be the prominent one, and I wonder if it will hold for Tea Cake. Jody is sort of a rich, powerful black man that seems to be a "white" black man. The house is similar in that it is so nice and extravagant that it is almost like a "white" house. It is described as making all of the other houses look inferior, just as Jody does to the other townsfolk. This is also like Janie and Jody's relationship which is portrayed by them as a good marriage, but in reality it is pretty bad.