Mrs. Turner is an African American woman who lives with her husband Mr. Turner in the everglades, where they run a small restaurant. Mrs. Turner is a character who is in love with herself and feels superior to the other Negroes due to her difference in physical features and her fairer skin complexion. She is a character who regards white people as superior, praising them while she cricizes and cannot stand the existence of Negroes. According to the writer, Mrs. Turner would rega rd anyone who looked more like a white person than her as beer and she would find it right if they were cruel to her just as how she is cruel to people darker skinned than her. She praises Janie for her fair skin and other different physical features. The writer introduces Mrs. Turner for several reasons. The first is because her character is a foil to the changing and changed mes between the blacks and whites. Another is because of her different personal opinion and commentary on complementary society where she complains that it was beer when blacks were slaves because they were taken care of and now they’re struggling on their own. She also acts as an enemy within because of her views against her on race. She is also an obstacle to Tea Cake and Janie’s relaonship as she aempts to persuade Janie into leaving Tea Cake and marrying her brother because Tea Cake is dark skinned.