Text: "Aw, pretty good, Ah'm tryin' to soak some uh de tiredness and de dirt outa mah' feet."
This is the first time we here Janie speak and it confirms that she is also not the most educated person. Before this we only knew that her neighbors were uneducated. We also learn from this paragraph that the line is in that her neighbors and her are connected either through family or just friends because they bring her a plate of food. The area definitely has a southern/uneducated accent.
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Mickey,
Okay - there's dialect here and that tells us something about the character (more about class and race than education: blacks didn't really have equal access to schools at this point), but go beyond this and look at "de dirt" - what's this imply. It is something that is not said.
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