Summary Of Wrath By Zora Neale

Two white men force Tea Cake to help them bury the dead in Palm Beach. He does not like the racism that is here, so he takes Janie back to the muck. They get back and realize that many of their friends have stayed alive. Eventually Tea Cake returns back to work. He comes home early one day feeling bad. Janie tries to get him to eat and drink, but he is unable to do so. She sends for a doctor to come look at him. The doctor tells her that her that he was bitten by a rabid dog, and there is not much that they can do for him. He progressively gets worse, so Janie leaves to see if the medicine the doctor sent for has arrived yet. When she returns, Tea Cake accuses her of running of with Mrs. Turner’s brother. She reassures him that this is not the case and finds a pistol underneath his pillow. The same night he goes out to the outhouse, and Janie sets his gun so that three “blanks” will fire before an actual bullet comes out. Tea Cake comes back with the pistol in his hand and begins to fire at Janie. He gets up to the second “blank” when she realizes that she has to act. Janie shoots, and kills, Tea Cake. The same day she is put on trial for killing her husband but is found not guilty of first degree murder. After the trial, she gives Tea Cake an amazing burial.
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They need someone to blame, so the get rid of Mrs. Turner’s brother, again. It is hard for her to live here because everything reminds her of Tea Cake. Janie decides to return back to Eatonville. With her, she brings the seeds the Tea Cake was going to use to plant a garden at their home in the muck. It returns back to the present, and she tells Pheoby that she is content with living back here because she has already lived her dream. Janie knows that the town will probably gossip about her, but she does not care anymore. Later that night, Janie gets sad about Tea Cake’s death but realizes he gave