Tea Cake knew he had to win Janies love over when they met in Jacksonville he knew she wasn’t going to give in that easy, even though Tea Cake is independent as Joe and is willing to take care of his wife also .When janie went to the Everglades with Tea Cake they had set up a house together and she stayed at home and he worked planting beans.: (Caldwell, Tracy M) Tea Cake and Janie was the couple that just thought they had to be together and they also had a good bond together and he taught her how to play chess and how to hold guns and shoot them. (Tea Cake unlike her previous husband, he treated her equally.;(Caldwell, Tracy M) They got along well as all her other husbands, but they weren't her type or didn't pay her enough attention
