Passage from Chapter 13:

            Just before day the party wore out. So Tea Cake hurried on back to his new wife. He had done found out how rich people feel and he had a fine guitar and twelve dollars left in his pocket and all he needed now was a great big old hug and kiss from Janie.
            “You musta thought yo’ wife was powerful ugly. Dem ugly women dat you paid two dollars not to come in, could get tuh de door. You never even ‘lowed me tuh git dat close.” She pouted.
           “Janie, Ah would have give Jacksonville wid Tampa for a jump-back for you to be dere wid me. Ah started to come git yuh two three times.”
            “Well, how come yuh didn’t come git me?”
             “Janie, would you have come if Ah did?”
             “Sho Ah would. Ah laks fun just as good as you do.”
             “Janie, Ah wanted tuh, mighty much, but Ah was skeered. Too skeered Ah might lose yuh.”
            “Why?”
             “Dem wuzn’t no high muckty mucks. Dem wuz railroad hands and dey womenfolks. You ain’t usetuh folks lak dat and Ah wuz skeered you might git all mad and quit me for takin’ you ‘mongst ‘em. But Ah wanted yud wid me jus’ de same. Befo’ us got married Ah made up mah mind not tuh let you see no commonness in me. When Ah git mad habbits on, Ah’d go off and keep it out yo’ sight. ‘Taint mah notion tuh drag you down wid me.”
            “Looka heah, Tea Cake, if you ever go off from me and have a good time lak dat and then come back heah tellin’ me how nice Ah is, Ah specks tuh kill yuh dead. You heah me?”
            “So you aims tuh partake wid everything, hunh?”
            “Yeah, Tea Cake, don’t keer what it is.”
             “Dat’s all Ah wants tuh know. From now on you’se mah wife and mah woman and everything else in de world Ah needs.”

Comments:
all he needed now was a great big old hug and kiss from Janie.
Tea Cake enjoys showing affection to Janie. The novel does not mention of Joe or Logan hugging or kissing Janie, meaning that these marriages are not about love, but instead the marriages are about having the wife be more like a trophy or possession. Tea Cake and Janie showing affection towards each other makes their relationship unique and meaningful.. Back to top.

She Pouted.
Janie is a bit hurt because Tea Cake did not come to get her. She is giving Tea Cake a guilt trip, saying that since Tea Cake is not allowing "ugly women" to enter the party, then she must be extremely ugly since her husband does not even invite her. Janie is sad because she figures that her husband would want her to go out and have fun with him, but instead he is having fun without her. Janie wants to spend time with Tea Cake, whereas with her other husbands, she does not need that. Back to top.

"Ah was skeered. Too skeered Ah might lose yuh."
Tea Cake is showing some vulnerability and insecurity of losing Janie. He really loves her so he is scared that she might leave him if he offends her by asking her to hang out with common people.  Back to top.