Their Eyes Were Watching God Blog 3

• Blog – Jody’s true personality is revealed in Eatonville. Explain why he is allowed to act the way he acts.

In this chapter Joe becomes mayor of Eatonville. He craves the power that he has as mayor and he uses it in his relationship with Janie. He begins to treat Janie like one of his town subjects. He makes her wear a hairnet because he doesn’t want any of the townsmen to touch her hair. “Maybe he skeered some de rest of us mens might touch it round dat store.” (Pg. 59) This is all because he is infatuated with making Eatonville into a working city. He is allowed to act the way that he acts because the townspeople fear the power that he holds over them, so they don’t want to do anything to make him mad at them. “They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.” (Pg. 59)