Janie returning home

In the opening chapter when Janie came home from her journey the town people didn’t treat her very nicely because of the way she looked.  She was wearing overalls and they thought she looked goofy.  There was one person who stood up for her though and she told Janie that she was beautiful and to not listen to them.  Janie had grown up with her grandmother and played with white children.  She had never known the difference from her and the white kids until someone showed her a photograph of her.  She then realized that she was different from the little children and that is when they started treating her poorly.  Both of these show a time where Janie was treated poorly because of the color of her skin.  She was judged because of it and when she was a child she had no idea why really but in the town she knew more as to why it was happening.