It was very interesting to meet Tea Cakes in the book finally because it brought a new theme to the book. That theme is trust. When Janie decides to leave her old life and move with Tea Cakes to get married. He is twelve years younger and does not have a penny to his name. Janie has plenty of money that was left to her by Joe. She decides to trust Tea Cake because she feels that he is not marrying her just to take her money. A test of this happened when Tea Cakes discovered the two hundred dollars that Janie had hidden just in case. Tea Cakes took it and spent most of it, but he did come back, which shows that with all of the money that he thinks that she has is gone, he still comes back. This shows the love that he has for her and only her; not the money.
“Janie, Ah wanted tuh, mighty much, but Ah was skeered. Too skeered Ah might lose yuh,” (124).
Tea Cakes is showing her that he can be trusted. He loves her and Janie brought up a good point when she claimed that the rest of the guys that she could have been with were all jealous and wishing they could have the money that she does just as much, if not more than Tea Cake. Every body likes money, but it seems that Tea Cakes love her more than he loves money.
