Their Eyes Were Watching God ch 1-2

When Janie returns some women, whom are sitting on Pheoby's porch, gossip about her. They gossiped about her marriage, what caused her to leave town and why she has returned. They do this in a way that lets us know that they are a bit jealous of Janie. They want to put Janie on their level. This is similar to how Janie was treated as a child because people looked down on her. This is what the women on the porch were doing. They were belittling her to make themselves feel better. These two events are different in that Janie, as a child, had just found out she was black, and that that is why she was treated differently. Then she had not yet coped with it. Now, there are ladies sitting on a porch criticizing her, but she doesn't let that phase her. She walks by as if they weren't even there.