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Summary Of Tea Cake By Zora Neale
Tea Cake is a young, energetic, hardworking man. The first time we meet Tea Cake is when he arrives to Eatonville to watch the baseball game in town. He decides stop by the Stark’s Town store where he meets the beautiful widow Mrs.Starks (Janie). At first sight Janie is immediately attracted to Tea Cake, even though the age difference is kinda big (twelve years) they manage to ignore it and get to know each other. The entire town finds out that Janie and Tea Cake have a thing going on and they find it disrespectful toward Joe Starks (her husband who passed away a couple months back). Her friends and the people from the town tell her to stop seeing TeaCake because he just using her for her money. Tea Cake makes it very clear that he was
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