When we initially met Joe Stark in the story I was expecting him to be a negative influence on Janie's life. His relationship with Janie quickly surpassed the one that Janie and Logan. However, it appeared that Stark was more than a few hollow promises. He treated Janie well and took her with him to Eatonville. There he near single-handedly created a new town. He was good for Janie, but also for the rest of the town. He was able to transform a little shanty town into a mildly respectable town. Unfortunately, Stark's sucess went to his head and he started taking advantage of the people of Eatonville. He did not directly assert his power, instead he allowed his meer presence to intimidate the citizens of Eatonville into following his orders.
Joe Stark is a very well educated black man who has decided he wants to make it big in the all black city of Eatonville. This desire for success is probably due to his association with successful white men from up north. He appears to ernestly care about others, but one can not be sure. It is possible that Stark simply picked up Janie on his way to Eatonville simply to have a trophy wife and further impress the locals. This is not altogether unlikely due to fact that he loves attention. When he decied that the town needed a lamp post, Stark made into a whole affair rather than quickly installing the post and moving on. This displays how self-centered Stark. This is ironic, because his Janie was called spoiled by Logan, her previous husband. But now she has married Joe Stark a very self-centered and self-interested man. It does not appear that he cares about the town, the town's success just happens to coincide with his own aggrandization. It is very likely that Joe Stark will be dethroned in the upcoming chapters and forced out of Eatonville.
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