The passage on the first page on chapter 12 is when the townspeople first start to realize Janie and Tea Cake are together. The atmosphere is annoyed and outraged. The townspeople kind of whine about all the stuff Tea Cake and Janie are doing. It affects the text because it shows the hypocrisy of judgment. The people think he is shameless for wooing her, but they all would have done the same thing. This passage really shows their jealousy through the atmosphere.
Later in chapter 12, Phoeby's husband tells her to go see if Janie is serious about Tea Cake. Phoebe tries to make it look like a coincidence that she is there. The narrator says that Janie acts glad to see Phoeby. This is specific diction that Hurston used. Janie was not really glad, she was just pretending. It shows how infatuated she is. When people get really close with their significant others, they tend to lose emotion for friends. Also it shows how both women were putting on an act. Janie saw right through Phoeby's apparently random appearance at her house, and she appears happy.
In chapter 11 Tea Cake thought Janie was mad at him and might kick him out. Using third person omniscient the reader can see that Tea Cake actually felt scared that she would ahte him. That is really important, because up until that point, the reader is unsure of if they should trust Tea Cake. With one sentence, The entire tone the author uses for Tea Cake is shifted and the reader accepts him. This is important because the reader had to not trust him to see from the townspeople's' view, but also had to trust him to see from Janie's, so the sudden switch accommodates both needs.
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