Pg. 43. “Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no speech makin’. Ah never married her for nothin’ like dat. She’s uh woman and her place is in de home.”
The people asked for words of encouragement from Janie, and when the town started to applaud for the upcoming speech, Joe interrupted and wouldn’t let her. She was upset that he wouldn’t even give her the chance to try, even if she didn’t know how. He took the ‘bloom off of things’. He acknowledges that she’s a woman and that her only job is to do things around the house – and the man being the ruler of the house, she has to listen to him. He felt proud with his new gained dignity but was unconscious of her feelings.
And you, as the reader, want to throw something at Joe.
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