Their Eyes Were WAtching God Ch. 6

In chapter 6, we meet Matt Bonner's mule. All day, the mule works hard only to be ridiculed by the towns people at the end of the day. Matt does not take good care of the mule. The mule is very skinny due to the fact that Matt doesn't feed him proportionally to the amount of work the animal does. One day, Matt loses his mule. Some of the towns people find him and begin teasing him. Janie became very angry when she saw this, because in a way she can relate to the mule. After a long day of hard work the mule is mistreated and teased. Janie works in the shop all day being ridiculed by Jody for things she does wrong. And when she gets home she is lonely because it seems as if Jody has lost interest in her. They have lost their spark.