President Barack Obama is expected to announce in the coming days a new executive action with the goal of expanding background checks on gun sales, people familiar with White House planning said. Despite the twelve years ago difference, Tea Cake and Janie fall in love. Janie is skeptical of his age. Usually younger men marry for money. Janie thinks that “he could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring” (101). She never used the metaphor with neither Logan or Joe before. Tea Cake is Janie’s true love that she has dreamed of when she was only a growing adolescent. He loves her unconditionally and compliments her eyes, lips, and hair instead of judging her work ethic. Tea Cake combs his fingers through Janie’s hair whereas Joe tells her to conceal her hair with a head-rag. This is a marking point that indicates that Janie is truly free from Joe.
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She warns Janie about Tea Cake and is worried that he only wants to be with Janie only for the money. She is genuinely concerned for Janie unlike the townspeople who continue to gossip and judge Janie for her actions. They think that Janie shouldn’t be involved with another man only after the nine short months of Joe being in a the grave. She says to Pheoby, “Ah done lived Grandma’s way, now Ah means tuh live mine” (108). She wants to start her new independent life and make decisions for herself now that she has lived the way her grandmother wanted her to
She warns Janie about Tea Cake and is worried that he only wants to be with Janie only for the money. She is genuinely concerned for Janie unlike the townspeople who continue to gossip and judge Janie for her actions. They think that Janie shouldn’t be involved with another man only after the nine short months of Joe being in a the grave. She says to Pheoby, “Ah done lived Grandma’s way, now Ah means tuh live mine” (108). She wants to start her new independent life and make decisions for herself now that she has lived the way her grandmother wanted her to