Mrs.
Turner worships her gods because she feels inferior to people that are whiter than her
. She needs a way to feel like she is better than her peers.
What is the false god that Mrs Turner worships?
Mrs. Turner, however, worships her false gods because they
give her a sense of superiority over her peers
and because, something of a masochist, she enjoys the pain that these gods dole out. When she is mocked for her views by others, she feels like a victim and a martyr, a feeling she finds pleasurable.
What is the purpose of Mrs Turner in Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Mrs. Turner represents
the cruelty and delusion that comes from idolizing physical characteristics
, and how this devotion turns ordinary people into either gods to worship or fiends to demonize. Beyond that, Mrs. Turner also serves as a reminder that prejudice exists within the Black community, not just outside of it.
Who is Mrs Turner in Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Mrs. Turner is
Janie and Tea Cake’s awkward looking and often disrespectful neighbor
in the muck, who attempts to befriend Janie and alienates Tea Cake. Mrs. Turner repeatedly suggests that Janie go out with her brother, who she says is much better than Tea Cake because of his intelligence and lighter skin.
What are the characteristics of the god Mrs Turner worships?
Behind her crude words was a
belief that she and others could attain her paradise
—a heaven of straight-haired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned white seraphs. The physical impossibilities in no way injured faith. The narrator here compares Mrs. Turner’s worship of whiteness and hatred of Blackness to a religion.
What did Mrs Turner propose to Janie?
Turner propose to Janie? Why? She thought Janie had
too fine features to be married to a man as black as Tea Cake
. She wanted to introduce Janie to her brother.
Why does Mrs Turner want to be friends with Janie?
Mrs. Turner decides to befriend Janie
because Janie is also fair-skinned
. In her conversation with Mrs. Turner, Janie learns that the woman is weirdly racist: she’s anti-black and resents having to live with them.
How does Mrs Turner feel about black people?
Mrs. Turner says many things that suggest she is
a color-struck black woman with a deep self-loathing
. She hates black people, but she does not count herself among them. In class discussions of this character, I always focused on her type in isolation and never saw any larger implication.
What happens at Mrs Turner’s?
The restaurant gets trashed, and Mrs
. Turner gets trampled and injured
. She fumes at her husband for passively letting the roustabouts wreck her business.
What kind of person is Mrs Turner?
A
middle-age woman of mixed (black and white) ethnicity
, Mrs. Turner imposes herself upon Janie because of their similar heritage.
How does Mrs Turner view white people?
Mrs. Turner was totally committed to her belief that white people
were better than black people
, and her belief led her to say terrible things about those darker than her, and to accept terrible things about herself from those lighter than her.
Why does Mrs Turner continue to forgive Janie?
Mrs. Turner continues to forgive Janie
because she knows that Janie is more white than black and she doesn’t want to hold the fact that Janie has been raised with black people against her
. She justifies her own behavior along with Janie’s by saying that is how the white folks would act.
Why does Mrs Turner disapprove of tea cake?
Turner does not approve of Tea Cake because his skin is too dark and thinks Janie should be with her brother
, instead. Mrs. Turner doesn’t believe it when Janie tells her she and Tea Cake have a real love and so much fun together. … Turner leaves, Janie realizes that Tea Cake has been in the kitchen listening.
How does Janie react to Mrs Turner?
Essentially,
Janie tolerates Mrs. Turner
despite her aversion to the older woman’s convictions about race. “Her husband can’t do nothin’ wid dat butt-headed woman. All you can do is treat her cold whenever she come round here.” Janie tried that, but short of telling Mrs.
What is Logan Killicks biggest issue with Janie?
Logan seems to have the idea that
marriage
means dominating a woman and that women are objects for men to put to use. He also feels unappreciated by Janie because she doesn’t worship him for making her the mistress of 60 acres of land.
How does Tea Cake get revenge on Mrs Turner?
Turner angered Tea Cake when she sent her brother to try to lure Janie away from Tea Cake
. Perhaps Tea Cake and his friends hope that the physical damage caused at the restaurant will serve as an act of revenge for the emotional damage caused by Mrs. Turner’s bigotry.
