Journal 3

First Class: (Eatonville, Janie & Jody) "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' quarters surrounding the "big house"" (p. 47) All the people are black, but they still have classes between them. Shows conflict among the people.
"Janie soon began to feel the impact of awe and envy against her sensiblities. The wife of the mayor was not just another woman....she ccouldn't get but so close to mjost of them in spirit." (p. 46) Janie is from a lower class, just like the rest of Eatonville, but because of the man she is with it has divided her from the rest of the people. also division in the race.
""worser'n dat. De womenfolks got yo' mile. when ah come round de lake 'bout noontime mah wife and some others had 'im flat on de ground usin' his sides fuh uh wash board." (p. 52) It's degrating for even the mule to be with the women. the men are also teasing matt.
"She was there in the store for him to look at, not those others." (p. 55) shows that janie is the possesion of Jody. Hurston shows her oppostion to this because Jody dies, and Janie easily, and happily moves on from him.


Middle Class:(Janie & Logan)

The idea of an independant woman is expressed because janie leaves Logan
"Considerin' youse born in a carriage 'thout no top to it, and yo' mama and you bein' born and raised in de white folks back-yard." Logan is bitter because someone who was a lower class than him got to be with the "white folks" (p. 30)
"mah mamma didn't tell me ah wuz born in no hurry. so whut business Ah got rushin' now? Anyhow day ain't whut youse mad about youse mad 'cause Ah don't fall down and wash-up dese dixty acres uh ground yuh got. You ain't done me no favor by marryin' me. And if dat's what you call yo'self doin', Ah don't thank tuh for it. Youse mad 'cause Ah'm tellin' yuh whut you already knowed." (p. 31) She's defending herself against a different "class", men. Even though Logan has land it doesn't make Janie happy, conflict among the class.

Lower Class: (Tea Cake)

She liked Tea Cake the most because he treated her the most equally.

"Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laught to herself. What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes? The crowd of people around her and a dice game on her floor! she was sorry for her friends back there and scornful of the others. The men held big arguments here like they used to do pon the store porch. Only here, she could listen and laugh and even talk some herself if she wanted to. She got so she could tell big stoies herself from listening to the rest." (p. 134) evdience for her disdain for Eatonville because she wasn't treated equally.
"He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a salf-crushing love. So her sould crawled out from its hiding place" (p. 128) Janie was so oppressed by her other husbands that she couldn't open up, and tea cake treats her equally so she can.
"Looka heah, Tea Cake, if you ever go of from me and have a good time lak dat and then come back heah tellin' me how nice Ah is, Ah specks tuh kill yuh dead. You heah me?" she wants to do the same things he does.

She moves through men until she finds one that will treat her equally, tea cake lets her work like a man, and play cards like a man.
Hurston shows her feminism through the discussions of men and women, when men talk about the women it is almost always negatively, revealing the mens "true" negative nature. The woman are all submissive to their husbands.
Their Eyes Were Watching God, God is said to treat everyone equally.