Their eyes were watching god chapters 7-17

Starting in chapter 7, Joe Starks is continuing to belittle Janie and she is feeling like her marriage to Joe is dieing and so she becomes less and less communicative to others and Joe. But Janie does something very brave and insults Joe in front of his friends on the porch, so that makes him feel like his masculinity was stripped of him. He hits her and makes her go home. As the story moves on she continues to argue with Joe and he decided to sleep in another room for the rest of the marriage, he did still love her, but wanted her not to know that. Janie feels that her marriage is getting worse and called upon her best friend Pheoby to discuss her problems. Joe is getting Ill and ill er, and without his permission,Janie had a friend send for a doctor from new Orleans. The doctor had told Joe and Jane that he has kidney failor and don't have much time to live. He don't allow Janie to come into his "sick room",but she disobeys him anyway and goes in. They argue more and she told him that she never had a chance to show what she could do because he didn't give her opportunity to. He eventually dies, and she feels sad, but also free from him. She lets her hair down out of the head rag and feels freer than ever. So the funeral happened, she then over the few months later men started coming around. There was one man, Tea Cake, he swept her off her feet and eventually she closed and sold the store, left with Tea Cake, married him, and made a home on the muck with him in the everglades.For a while things were good until Mrs. Turner showed up and told her she needed to leave Janie's husband and marry her brother.Janie realizes she is "IN LOVE" for the first time and she loves him just as she use to love to sit under the pear tree at her Nanny's. He even taught her to shoot better than her with a gun. She loved the everglades and it was so exciting, work in the day, play at night.
Tea Cake and his buddies, but Janie wasn't allowed to go to Mrs. Turners restaurant for some fun and a fight breaks out. Finally Mrs. Turner, who thinks she is more white than black, got mad and said she is going to Miami where people are civilized, unlike here in the everglades.