Tea Cake is Not Fine
Tea Cake is a very questionable character to me. While I have not finished the book completely, I still do not like him and do not think my opinion will change by the end of the novel. In my opinion, I think Tea Cake is hiding ulterior motives behind his suave facade. Tea Cake has quite a bit of reasonable characteristics to pursue a relationship with Janie, in a socio-economic sense: he is twelve years younger than her, dirt poor, and is an incredibly hard worker. Earlier in the novel, the reader is told of Janie’s experience under the pear tree and her perception of love as a result of it. I do believe that in her relationship with Tea Cake, Janie is achieving her goals of the bee and the flower by the pear tree. Janie has achieved a relationship that is co-dependent in the more traditional way that she would like. Despite not working in the field with Logan, she goes out in the field to work with Tea Cake, showing how passionately she loves him. Marriage is not a feeling of loneli