Chapter 7

[Janie]: "You big-bellies round here and put out a lot ... of brag, but ‘tain’t nothin’ to it but yo’ big voice. Humph! Talkin’ ‘bout me lookin’ old! When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life."

Janie finds out that Joe and all of the other men in the town are just a bunch of talk. She feels that words are not good enough on their own, they have to have some type of actions behind them, and she didn’t see that in Joe’s words or the words from the other townsmen. She also thinks that her words are true, and in her state of mind words have power when truth is behind them.

"I god amighty! A woman stay round uh store ... till she get old as Methusalem and still can’t cut a little thing like a plug of tobacco! Don’t’ stand dere rollin’ yo’ pop eyes at me wid yo’ rump hangin’ nearly to yo’ knees."

Joe is making a fool out of himself because Janie has no noticeable flaws, and she and the townspeople know it, Joe is just trying to get the townspeople to like him, but the towns people really think that he is making himself look pitiful, and I think he is. I believe that he just wants a little attention, but he is not getting it so he tries a little harder so he could get what he wants, how he wants.