When Jody becomes mayor, Janie's whole life changes. When Jody came to Eatonville his expectations are very high, yet when he sees the town he is greatly disappoint with the conditions that its in. therefore, he organizes everything and builds a store, a post office, and other important buildings. Due to there things, the people elect him mayor of the town making him some what of a noble. At first, Janie didn't think that this new position would change her life. However, Jody started to be more controlling of her and where she went, how she dressed, and he tried to control her actions and emotions. Yet, Janie didn't like this form of control, that was one of the reasons why she left Logan; she now had to run the store and was not allowed to fraternize with the everyday people. She wasn't allowed to attend certain events of go certain places. Such as the time when Jody holds the funeral for the mule, she was not allowed to attend since a lady of her status was too good for it. Also, she had to wear a bonnet to cover her long hair, so that the men don't look at he. Overall, Jody becomes much more controlling now that he is mayor and Janie doesn't necessarily approve of this drastic change; Jody went from being this free-spirited guy to now this controlling monster ta ht she had already lived with before, he had changed a great deal.