After all, Tea Cake was nearly ten years younger than Janie. Surely her husband - they assume she married the man, the guitar-playing, roving Tea Cake - took her money and probably went off with a younger woman. How could she have the nerve not to stop and explain why she went off a year and a half ago in a blue satin dress and now she returns in dirty overalls? Janie speaks, acknowledges them, and goes on, and their indignation is great. The women see her as a disaster, but the men see her as still possessing physical attraction. They are astonished to see a bedraggled and weary-looking Janie Starks trudging into town, then turning her face in their direction. The porch sitters are spread out on the front porch of Pheoby and Sam Watson's home, happy to be free of the responsibilities of their long day's labor.
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