TEWWG ch 16

What word does not describe Mrs. Turner?

• "Her nose was slightly pointed and she was proud"

• "she was a milky sort of woman that belonged to child-bed"

• "...she must have been conscious of her pelvis because she kept it stuck out in front of her..."

• "...she'd get a kind of smirk on her face every time she saw Janie"

Mrs. Turner dislikes Tea Cake for the following reasons:

• He is dark-skinned

• She wanted Janie to date her brother

• She thinks that Tea Cake is cheating on Janie

• She thinks that Tea Cake and Janie aren't truly in love

Mrs. Turner likes the way she looks because:

• She has Caucasian features

• Men are always eyeing her

• She looks like her mother whom she loves

• She looks like her brother whom she loves

Janie returns to her nature metaphor in chapter 16 when she says:

• "Mrs. Turner wudn't know what it feels like to be a pear tree blossom if she got stinged by her own bee"

• "Plantin' season made [Janie] ponder the idea of her own chillin'"

• "[Tea Cake] kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull"

• "The Everglades felt like the roots of a pear tree, a kinda startin' place"

Explain the "pecking order" that Mrs. Turner believes:

• Rich people can be rude to middle class people, and middle class people can be rude to poor people

• Christians can be rude to Jews, and Jewish people can be rude to Muslims

• White people can be cruel to light-skinned people, and light-skinned people can be cruel to darker-skinned people

• All people should be treated equally