29. Their Eyes Were Watching God

Pg. 47. “The rest of the town looked like servants’ quarters surrounding the ‘big house’”.

Joe made him and Janie and big two store house with porches and banisters. He waited to move into it until after it had been completely painted. Joe had the house painted white – a color that the people thought was ‘gloaty’. The people of the town were colored and they didn’t have much money. Before Jody, they didn’t have street lights, a post office, a store, or a mayor. Joe is one of the only people who have money around the town, and people thought it was rude to have him flaunt his cash by building a big house for everyone to see and drool over. People felt like they were slaves again.