Jody's New Personality

In chapter five we are able to learn more about the town with all blacks in it. The town is named Eatonville and only consists of fifty acres of land. When Jody and Janie arrive, they ask to see the mayor of the town. There is no mayor of the town so Jody decides to become the mayor because he bought and extra 200 acres for the town. Jody starts improving the town by buying new improvements like buying a street lamp for the town. While being the mayor and having more money than anyone else in the town, Jody starts to let his real personality come out. He becomes very controlling with the town and Janie. For example, he chases a guy out of town just for trying to steal some of his ribbon cane. Jody also has the biggest house out of everyone else in the town making him look better than everyone else and making the rest of the townspeople look like his servants. He also becomes so controlling over Janie that he doesn't allow her to wear her hair down. She is forced to where her beautiful hair up in a bun while she works in the stores. Jody changes everything he said to Janie before when he tells her that every women deserves to just sit on the porch while the man works. But he has Janie working in the town stores with her hair tied up in a bun.