Janie and Tea Cake

When the viewer starts watching this scene they see that Janie gets jealous when she sees another women flirting with Tea Cake. The viewer also sees that Amus wants to try and marry Janie. When Tea Cake calls her over to play checkers nobody thinks she will come but she comes right away and that surprises everyone. Amus starts to try and teach her but she isn’t really paying attention. Tea Cake and Janie exchange looks at each other and this shows a different type of relationships than Janie has had before. Tea Cake and Janie can communicate just through looks it seems like and Janie stuns everyone when she takes Tea Cakes coke and drinks it without asking. Janie shows everyone her interest in Tea Cake by doing that and shows the freedom that she has to take his things without asking which is completely different than what she had before.