In chapter 13 we start off the chapter with Janie and Tea Cake getting married as soon as Janie arrives off the train into Jacksonville. Before Janie had left to marry Tea Cake, her friend Pheoby had advised her that she keep a spare $200 hidden in case Tea Cake decides to run off with all her belongings like Who Flung had done to Annie Tyler. A week into their marriage there comes a morning when Janie wakes up with no Tea Cake or money left. Janie started to worry as it soon became night and then the next morning. When Tea Cake comes back he tells her how he found the money, had a day full of fun, and saw how it was to be rich. It was then after some listening that Janie told Tea Cake she would want to go with him to everything, and Tea Cake realized, “From now on you’se mah wife and mah woman and everything else in de world Ah needs” (Hurston 124).

In chapter 14 we see Janie and Tea Cake move down to the Everglades where lots of people come down to the muck to find work harvesting beans all during the day, and gambling all at night making good pay for it all. Although at first we see Janie cooped up in the quarters all day long we eventually see her come out into the field laughing and making friends with everyone around. Soon enough by the end of the chapter and summer we see anyone and everyone knowing Tea cake and Janie.

Chapters 15 and 16 is where we start to see jealousy from both Janie and Tea Cake rightfully so in their own place. In chapter 15 we see this girl, Nunkie, who keeps trying to get Tea Cake alone and chase after her or take care of her. Eventually Janie gets upset and her and Tea Cake dispute until their night ends in love and exhaustion. In chapter 16, we meet a woman called Mrs. Turner who has taken a liking to Janie due to her being more light skinned than the others. During many discussions she and Janie have, we see that she does not like African Americans and wants Janie and Tea Cake to split, so that Janie may marry her brother. Mrs. Turner remains to be a problem even throughout chapter 17 when she is reported. As Mrs. Turner won’t back down, Tea Cake hits Janie in order to show that he is the boss and in charge and that she cannot have Janie. The chapter ends with a fight destroying Mrs. Turner's restaurant while everyone including her husband idly sits back and watches.

As much as I can understand for the times why Tea Cake hit Janie and why Mrs. Turner thinks as awfully as she does towards others, it is still something that I can fathom or accept especially with a mind of modern times.