"The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."
When the hurricane is approaching, Janie, Tea Cake, and Motor boat are hiding in their house, waiting for the impending doom to hit them. What I believe the quote means is that they were putting their entire will into hoping that God would do something to spare them. So they waited and watched for God to do something, but the hurricane got closer and a massive flood headed there way, so the only option was to take their salvation into their own hands and take their eyes away from God.
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I feel you are right and wrong. You are right in the fact that they are waiting for g-d to do something. But I fell you miss the point that g-d is putting himself vs. them. It is like if their life has become a chess game and it’s g-d’s move he holds the game in balance but Janie has made a bad move but g-d will not kill them for they are not in cheek just yet.
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