The description of the woman vividly and immediately portrays her as an outcast of the town; someone who never fit in, who is not entirely welcome back now, and who demands the attention and curiosity from those around her. We meet Janie with envious chests, sour mouths, and burning throats.
“What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on? – Where’s dat blue satin dress she left here in? – Where all dat money her husband took and died and left? – What dat ole fourty year ole ’oman doin’ wid her hair swingin’ down her back lak some young gal? – Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid? – Thought she was going to marry? – Where he left her? – What he done wid all her money? –Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain’t even got no hairs – why she don’t stay in her class?—” (2)
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