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34. "They know it's not courtship. It's acting-out courtship and everybody is in the play." (pg. 67)

This is a make-believe relationship, but there is a contrast between it and Janie's marriage. Here, everyone's happy and laughing and getting along., but in Janie's marriage, Jody just uses her as one of his pawns to get richer. He treats her like one of his posessions rather than as his wife.