1. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Chapter 14
Summary

2. Chapter 14
Janie is completely in love with Tea Cake. She is overwhelmed by the rich, fertile fields of the Everglades. Tea Cake is familiar with life in the “muck” and immediately gets them settled before the season’s rush of migrant workers arrive. He plans to pick beans during the day, and play guitar and roll dice at night. As the season begins, Tea Cake and Janie live a comfortable life. They plant beans, Tea Cake teaches Janie how to shoot a gun, and they go hunting together. She eventually becomes a better shot than he is.

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The season soon gets underway. Poor workers pour into the muck in droves to farm the land; eventually, all the houses are taken and people camp out in the fields. At night, the Everglades are filled with wild energy as the cheap bars are loud with music and people. Tea Cake’s house becomes the center of the community, a place where people hang out and listen to him play music.

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At first, Janie stays at home and cooks glorious meals, but soon Tea Cake gets lonely and begins cutting work to see her. Janie then decides to join him in the fields so that they can be together all day. Working in her overalls and sitting on the cabin stoop with the migrant workers, Janie laughs to herself about what the people in Eatonville would say if they could see her. She feels bad for the status-obsessed townspeople who cannot appreciate the folksy pleasure of sitting and talking on the porch.