The last two chapters of Their Eyes Were Watching God helps develop the theme that all good things come with a price.
When Tea Cake saves Janie from the mad dog, he gets bit in the process. Later, it gets infected, he becomes delirious and tries to kill her, and she has to shoot him. Janie was spared from the mad dog, but by saving her, Tea Cake unknowingly sacrificed himself.
The love Tea Cake had for Janie was also something that had a price to it. He loved her too much and couldn't bear to lose her. When he became infected he got it in his head that she didn't want him because he was too weak. He figured if she couldn't be loyal to him, she couldn't be loyal to anyone, and tried to kill her. In a way, Tea Cake's love for Janie was his undoing.
Plot Diagram:
A guy named Fred moves to a new town because he is a suspect for a crime. He meets a girl named Megan, who he falls in love with. She supposedly loves him, but she is actually an undercover cop trying to get evidence to put him in jail. After a few months, Megan has enough evidnce to put him behind bars and arrests him. He is sentenced to life in prison for his crime. The idea that she fell in love with him was too good to be true.
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