Characters: Janie May Crawford: independent; married three times; naive and youthful; resents her Grandmother (Nanny); attractive; beautiful; intelligent; has internal strength; individual; never had children; finds out she is black by a picture; children in plantation call her "alphabet" because she has so many names; Nanny tells her she will find love once she marries. Nanny: has a daughter named Leafy, who was the mother of Janie; has sexual relationship with the owner of the …showed first 75 words of 510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 510 total…her. He dies of a liver sickness. Janie meets Tea Cake after Joe's death and he sweeps her off of her feet. They move to the Everglades, and he teaches her how to do many things that she has never been taught before. She works side-by-side with him happily. When Tea Cake is bitten and gets rabies, Janie is forced to shoot him. She then moves back to Eatonville, where she is respected by many.