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51. "Joe ain't been dead two months. Ain't got settled down in his grave." (pg. 91)

Janie uses Jody's recent death to get rid of the marriage proposals of men who she knows wouldn't give her a second thought if she wasn't rich. If she knew that they weren't after her money it would be a different story because Jody didn't really mean all that much to her in the long run.