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16. "Janie took...kind of portly like rich white folks." (pg. 34)

Janie has a kind of fascination with white people, or she is comforted by Jody seeming like a white person. It is what she is used to. Her most impressionable years were spent living with a white family and playing with their children. To her, Jody is a reminder of her youth, as well as a promise of better things to come.