Their Eyes Were Watching God | Chapter 7: Summary and Analysis

New Character:
Steve Mixon: A customer who buys tobacco at the Starks’ store.

Summary
Time passes in the same manner as Chapter 6, and Janie finds herself unsatisfied with the way Joe treats her but is resigned to it. Occasionally she fantasizes about going away again but dismisses the idea because she is 35 years old now. She still feels the need to support him because if he isn’t anybody special “life won’t be nothin’ but uh store and uh house.”

Joe has become an old man, and knows it himself. Joe starts to comment about Janie’s age...



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