Everglades

When they get to the Everglades, Teacake often comes home throughout the day. To Janie, this means that Teacake thinks that she could be cheating on him. But in reality, Teacake just missed Janie and wanted to spend time with her. Teacake than asks her to get a job to muck with him. Janie accepts, and I think that she accepts to get this job for many reasons. Janie was given an option, a choice that she can make for herself, she didn't have to work but she could if she wanted to. Teacake was not forcing her to work, but merely offering so that they could spend more time together. Janie likes this and feels like she has a lot of freedom, something that she has not really ever had before. Another reason that she accepts is because well honestly, she was lonely sitting at home all day. She had nothing to do and didn't necessarily enjoy cooking and whatnot. Not many women were working in the muck either, and she wanted to break away from what she had just been; a trophy wife, sitting at home in her big house cooking and servicing her husband. Doing a dirty job made her feel free from Jody and it made her move on from her last life to her new life.