TEWWG Chapter 7-9

In this part of the book Janie starts to fight back at Jody and eventually calls him out in public. When she does this she insults him by basically calling him, 'Ill-equipped.' When she does this there are many men who admired Joe standing around. There is a part in these chapters where one of the men says something along the lines of I used to admire him by the stuff he has but now I realize the stuff is cool and he's pathetic. The section where Janie talks about the angels getting jealous of men is a great representation of Janie breaking Jody down. It's basically saying that at the beginning man was greater then the angels until the angels broke them down. In Janie's situation, Janie is like the angels and Jody is like men. Jody was high and mighty until Janie came in and chopped him up and covered him in mud.