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It illuminates important details of the personality of Janie Crawford. This interchange happened between Janie and Jody. In addition to being an excellent example of Hurston’s use of dialect and idiomatic English, this dialogue speaks to Janie’s developing understanding of herself in relation to the world. We know that Janie is a very hard skoen person when she says, “Ah knowed you wasn’t gointuhlissentuh me. You changes everything but nothin’ don’t change you—not even death. But Ah ain’tgoin’ outa here and Ah ain’tgointuh hush. Naw, you gointuh listen tuh me one time befo’ you die. Have yo’ way all yo’ life, trample and mash down and then die ruther than tuh let yo’selfheah ’bout it. Listen, Jody, you ain’t de Jody ah run off down de road wid. You’sewhut’s left after he died. Ah run off tuh keep house wid you in uh wonderful way. But you wasn’t satisfied wid me de way Ah was. Naw! Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me.” She is essentially threatening Jody's life.
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