"'Cause Tea Cake ain't no Jody Starks, and if he tried tuh be, it would be uh complete flommuck."
This quotation is saying that Jody is one of a kind. Tea Cake could never amount to him. If Tea Cake tried to, he would fail. Jody is a gentleman that would do everything for his lady, and to make her happy. While Tea Cake is a very nice man, but he isn't as proper as Jody, and he doesn't have the hopes and dreams he does. Janie, Pheoby, and Nanny don't think that Tea Cake and Jody compare at all. They think that they completly contrast. They think that Janie was better off with Tea Cake because he gave her everything she wanted. Eventhough, Tea Cake was a very handsome man.
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