Jody Starks is Janie's handsome, wealthy, ambitious, and power-hungry second-husband. Meeting Jody Starks prompts Janie to leave her first husband, Logan Killicks, who she felt treated her as nothing more than an animal. Upon meeting Jody, Janie feels that she catches a glimpse of the horizon. Although Jody initially flatters Janie by focusing on and complimenting her beauty, he too ends up demoralizing her, treating her as an object upon which to exercise his desire for control and power rather than as a partner of equal standing in the relationship.
Jody Starks Quotes in Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Chapter 4
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Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon.
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Chapter 5
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"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."
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Jody Starks Quotes in Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Chapter 4
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Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon.
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Chapter 5
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"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."
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