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73. "It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding." (pg. 188)

Janie doesn't care if she is sentenced to hang for killing Tea Cake, but she doesn't want people to think that she killed him because she just didn't want to be with him anymore. She loved him, and she knows that deep down everyone else knows that too. They are only being judgemental because at the time it seems to them like the right thing to do.