Their Eyes Were Watching God- Being a Mayor

When Joe and Janie got married, they moved away right off, because Joe wanted to be a mayor and start his own town. Being a mayor had a lot of responsibilities, but Joe thought he could handle it and Janie supported him. While being a mayor, you also had a lot of people looking up to you and relying on you. There was always a lot of stress in Joe's life when he became a mayor. Joe decided to open a store in his new town also that he figured Janie could run, and she did. Adding the store, was just another burden they had. Joe and Janie were never short on money though, they actually were very rich. Being a mayor though, kind of made Joe a different person. At the begginning of the marriage between Janie and Joe, he was very nice and treated her great, but then when he became mayor he started to get a little bossy. He always wanted Janie to do just what he told her to do, and he always had something for her to do. He always got to have fun with everybody else in his town, but he always wanted Janie to stay home or work in the store. Nobody else really knew how he treated her, and they really could not tell either. Everyone in the town just loved him, and would do anything for him. Everyone liking Joe, made him a little too confident in himself and made matters worse. This mad him cocky, which made him treat Janie worse. Being a mayor really brought out the worse in him. He was such a good guy, and a good to his wife before he had all of his responsibilities as a mayor and had everyone looking up to him. He was also always stressed because if he made a mistake, everybody would notice. He did not like that feeling either, so he was always kind of stressed out. I never did feel sorry for him while reading it though, because he knew how it was going to be going into the duties of a mayor.