Janie and Tea Cake moved to the Everglades after they were married. When Joe asked Janie if she is okay with working she responds “Clerkin’ in dat store wuz hard, but heah, we aint got nothin’ tuh do but do our work and come home and love” (133). Tea Cake did not class Janie off like Joe did. When they returned to their house their relationship was filled with love. Even though Janie and Tea Cake were not rich and filled with matristic items Janie was truly happy here because she finally received the love she had yearned. Unlike the porch arguments in Eatonville, the arguments in the Everglades Janie could “listen and laugh, and even talk some herself” (134). Janie tells Tea Cake “so many people never seen de light at all. Ah wuz fumblin’ round and God opened de door” (159). She was assuring Tea Cake that because of him, in the Everglades, she got to truly experience