21. How is the book's title mentiones in ch.18?

Tea Cake asks Janie if she wishes that she had never come with him to the Everglades. But Janie says that before she had met Tea Cake she had been fumbling around. "God opened the door" and brought her Tea Cake. The lights go out and the three stare into the darkness. "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God." The people who are closest to nature (the Indians and the Bahamans) understand God's ways and signals. The blacks and the whites are removed from perceiving God because they are too concerned about money. Only when God's fury and power are literally knocking down their front door do Tea Cake and Janie "watch God."

Tea Cake asks Janie if she wishes that she had never come with him to the Everglades. But Janie says that before she had met Tea Cake she had been fumbling around. "God opened the door" and brought her Tea Cake. The lights go out and the three stare into the darkness. "They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God." The people who are closest to nature (the Indians and the Bahamans) understand God's ways and signals. The blacks and the whites are removed from perceiving God because they are too concerned about money. Only when God's fury and power are literally knocking down their front door do Tea Cake and Janie "watch God."

Source(s): http://www.gradesaver.com/their-eyes-were-watching-god/study-guide/section5/