Their eyes were watching God: chapter 5 quotes

"Thank yuh fuh yo compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin bout no speech makin Ah never married her for nothin lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home.''

This quote is very intersting. This quote puts an woman in her place. It tells a woman what she can and cant do. This quote says that women are good for something. Their good for what there husband want them to do. This quote takes the independce from a woman. It tells a woman what she can do. Also what she has the power to do. The woman becomes a woman to take care of the house. She's not able to work anyhere else but the house. The woman's best place is the house. The husband wanted to marry her because of her good work in the house.





"Take for instance that new house of his. It had two stories with porches, with bannisters and such things. The rest of the town looked like servants.''


I believe that Jody made himself seem better than the other towns people. Everything he had, had to be upscale. The towns people couldnt have the things he had or he would have to get something better. The house he had put the rest of the houses in the town to shame. His wife wasnt allowed to interact with the towns people. He did democracy for the towns people but things still ended up going his way.The towns people catered to him like he was lord. When you say that the rest of the town looked like servants that opens up a world of differences. That mean that the towns people couldnt do what him and his wife were able to do. The towns people wasnt able to drive and live like they were living.