Question

What rumor circulates through town when Joe gets sick. SELECT AN ANSWER The town thinks Janie has hired a faulty doctor who won't really help Joe. The town thinks Janie has left Joe to die alone. The town thinks Janie has cursed Joe and is therefore to blame for his death. The town thinks Janie is poisoning Joe. SUBMIT QUESTION 2 The quote, "She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world" shows that Janie feels _____________ about Joe's death. SELECT AN ANSWER overwhelmed and unsettled depressed and sorrowful guilty and nervous relieved and content

Answer 1

1. The rumour that circulates when Joe got sick was that the town thinks Janie is poisoning Joe.

2. It shows that Janie feels relieved and content about Joe's death.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Janie was tired of Joe and how he was constantly putting her down in public with no provocation, and when he called her old in front of practically the whole town at the store, she did the same to him by disparaging his manhood to his face. Immediately after that Joe fell sick and the town put two and two together and came up with the idea that Janie was poisoning Joe because of their altercation at the store.

2. After the stars faded from Janie's she realized life with Joe was not easy, he had his own unbending beliefs about women and their roles, he never listens to her and constantly rebuffed and silenced her when she talked. She realized Joe was not the true love she was looking for after all, and his death brought her freedom and the chance to spread her wings again. So she wore an outward mask for what the town expected to see from her, while she inwardly rejoiced and was happy about it.