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The "Friend From hell"(108). is like doubt since she has gone through so many men in her life she has doubts about tea cake and also doubts about trusting him and such because of what others have said about him. The friend from hell is describe like this "Doubt. all the fears that circumstance could provide and the heart feel."(108).

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The fiend from hell is doubt. Janie has doubts about another man in her life especially after everyone close to her has betrayed her. She doesn't want to make another life changing mistake and run off with the wrong guy yet again. Last time it cost her 17 long, miserable years of her life. She really likes Teacake. He treats her equally. She also very much enjoys "his good points" (96) including but not limited to his "lean, over-padded shoulders" (96) and his "narrow waist" (96). She wants to go with him but is weary of a potentially fatal mistake.

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"friend from hell specially sent lovers" explains how all men whom have been in janie's life have told her they love her. later on janie begins to fear love because they never actually love her witch causes her to doubt love in it self.

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The "fiend from hell specially sent to lovers" is all the men that have came into Janies life that have told her they "love" her. Janie begins to fear love almost and fear all the relationships she's been in. I feel like she's thinking that love almost doesn't exists and is scared of it. Then Tea Cake walks in her life and she has these feelings for him. She doesn't really want to be in a relationship with him but she can't help how she feels. She doesn't like the thought of being in another relationship because of all her past ones. I think that Janie is trying to stop herself from falling in love with Janie but theres nothing she can do about it. The "fiend from hell" is just this doubt she is having about ever getting into a relationship again.

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She begins to have this feeling of fear and doubt about everything that has been happening and about Tea Cake. She doesn't really know what exactly to think of him. She gets this great feeling from him but she also doesn't know if she trust him or what to expect from him. She has never met someone who has treated her this way before even from the very first time they had met. She was almost in shock because, "Somebody wanted her to play" (96). He want to play checkers with her and he believed that she could unlike Jody who said she wasn't smart enough to play. She had a lot of fun. He also flirted with her which none of the other guys that she has been with ever really did and it made her feel cared for.

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The fiend from hell is described as doubt. Specifially towards the relationship she has with Tea Cake. The doubt that Tea Cake would be like her previous relationships who didn't really care about her. She just wants to be seccure and not have to worry "If  only Tea Cake would make her certain!"(108).

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The Fiend from hell that Janie is talking about is how she feels about Tea Cake and how she feels about love. She doesn't know if she will ever find true love and who knows maybe her relationship with Tea Cake might change her perspective about love and give her more hope. Maybe she will become more hopeful and hungry for love. However I do think that right now that she seems like she is in a weird place because all of these suitors are coming to her door and she doesn't really know what to do because she doesn't like any of them and I think she has somewhat given up hope to find love and to find the bee to her pear tree. All of these relentless suitors have become tiresome for her.

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The "fiend from hell specially sent to lover" (108) is Teacake. The feeling is doubt due to her past experiences. She likes Teacake but is not sure whether she trust him.

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I think that the fiend from hell is Tea Cake, and Tea cake is doubt. Really they are all the same. Janie has finally reached a place of emotional solidarity, she's alone and loving it, she's finally free and independant. But, here comes old Tea Cake, the man of mystery. Janie has a love hate relationship with him it seems. She hates him because its as if another man may come sweep her off her feet, talk in rhymes so to speak, and steal another 17 years of her life from her. But altogether he has impressed her, she has been taken by his charisma and his thoughts on gender equality. We are getting an idea that Janie is falling for Tea Cake, but is over come by doubt and fear, that she could actually fall in love with someone, that a man respectful good man could truly love her, that she could be happy in relationship built for two.

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The "fiend from hell specially sent to lovers" is doubt . Janie is doubting her relationship with Tea Cake. She is hesitant to have another relationship with a man that could betray her. Janie's last two relationships did not work out and she isn't certain the one with Tea Cake will. He isn't giving her hope. She likes him, but he doesn't show that he likes her as much.

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The fiend from hell specially sent to lovers is Tea Cake. She hates him and seems to love him at the same time. It seems that she doesn't want to get in a relationship but she can't help it. Her appreciation for Tea Cake is described here "He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God" (106).

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The feeling of doubt is the "fiend from heck specially sent to lovers"(108). This feeling of doubt arrives in Janie's ear after having spent a good deal of time with Tea Cake. The narrator stated, "If only Tea Cake would make her certain"(108). This is the reason Janie is having the feeling of doubt. Janie doesn't feel certain about Tea Cake. Janie enjoys spending time with Tea Cake but this doubt comes to her when she doesn't really know what to expect of Tea Cake.

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The fiend from hell is doubt. She likes tea cake and that's an unfamiliar feeling for her. She's afraid that he doesn't really like her and she needs him to confirm that he does. We can see another example of her feelings for him when the narrator declares "She adored him and hated him at the same time" (108). She adores him because she likes and is attracted to him and she hates him because she's afraid that he doesn't really like her and might end up hurting her.

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The "fiend from hell" that arrives in Janie's ear is definitely doubt, which was caused by her bad relationships with men up until this point in life. Janie has never been genuinely "loved" or treated equally by any man before, especially Logan and Joe. Janie, according to the text, really likes Tea Cake, who's actions show that he really cares about Janie, and wants her more than just for show. However, Janie is still skeptical of Tea Cake because of her first marriage, where Logan "talked to her in rhymes" and then stopped and made her do the work. One prime example in the text says, "She adored him and hated him at the same time. How could he make her suffer so and then come grinning like that with that darling way he had" (108).

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What is the "fiend from hell specially sent to lovers" (108) that arrives in Janie's ear? Why is she feeling this way? How does she feel about Teacake? Support your reasoning with at least one quotation from Chapters 10 and 11.
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