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Desribe a sad moment in the story, "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

I think the saddest moment in the story is in Chapter 19, just after Janie kills Tea Cake to keep him from killing her.  Tea Cake was mad with rabies.  He rose from the bed where Janie had been caring for him with a pistol in his hand, and "the fiend in him must kill and Janie was the only thing living he saw".  She fired at the man she loved a split second before he fired at her, and when he fell "she leaped forward as he crashed forward in her arms".  The author describes the next moment as "the meanest moment of eternity".  Janie sat with the dying Tea Cake's head in her lap.  She "held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service...she had to hug hum tight for soon he would be gone".

A sad moment in "Their Eyes Were Watching God," for me was when Janie realized that she was totally unhappy with Joe Starks.  She had run away from a difficult, loveless marriage  and believed that Joe was going to be different.

In a way, Joe does provide her with a sense of happiness, material happiness.  Joe becomes mayor, he is respected in the town, and is interested in being a man about town, he leaves Janie alone all the time.

Its sad that Janie ends up marrying a second time to find that she is once again oppressed.  

Joe Stark's death is a welcome relief to Janie.