Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter 8

"What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him?"(Hurston, 1937)

I feel that Janie was saying in this quote how unpredictable and powerful death can be. Death cannot be prevented when it is time to die. Joe could not stop his kidney failure from happening. His death was something that was just bound to happen eventually whether he wanted it to or not. Death is invisible and makes it's moves stealthily.

"People who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the mayor's yard unless it were to do some menial job now paraded in and out as his confidants."(Hurston, 1937)

Alot of the towns people didn't really think much of her at all. they just care about Joe and looked at him as if he were some kind of savior. When he was ill in bed, towns people were keeping tabs on Janie and reporting everything she did to him as if they were expecting to recieve some of his wealth as a reward for their unneccessary services.