The season closed and people went away like they had come-in droves. Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay since they wanted to make another season on the muck. There was nothing to do, after they had gathered several bushels of dried beans to save over and sell to the planters in the fall. So Janie began to look around and see people and things she hadn't noticed during the season. Which aspect of early twentieth-century society in the South is illustrated in this excerpt?

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Delaney Bailey

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2 December, 00:57

The season closed and people went away like they had come-in droves. Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay since they wanted to make another season on the muck. There was nothing to do, after they had gathered several bushels of dried beans to save over and sell to the planters in the fall. So Janie began to look around and see people and things she hadn't noticed during the season. Which aspect of early twentieth-century society in the South is illustrated in this excerpt?

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Nolan Pruitt · Answer 1

The seasonal nature of life in the South is illustrated in this excerpt. The people come, and then leave, "in droves", implying that, depending on the time of year, there are either many people or few people in Janie's town. As the season comes to a close and the harvest is complete, she has little to do.