Upon taking one's first bite of a Tea Cake, a faint, but delightful sweetness is detected. At first the cake is light and fluffy, but as the flavor really sinks in one can taste a kick- something like cinnamon. This is much like Janie and Tea Cake in "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Tea Cake's light and genuine personality is what invites her in to fall in love with him. But the "kick" hits her, the self-crushing cinnamon flavor. "Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place," (page 122). Sweet and inviting at first, and a self crushing love once to the core.
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