What Tea Cake has against Miss Turner's brother

Tea Cake describes Miss Turner as a woman who "live offa our money and don't lak black folks, huh?" (148).  This view of Miss Turner is a more extreme version of the attitude that the people in Eatonville held for Joe.  Joe came to Eatonville with the idea of ruling over everyone else, to make the town more improved than it would be without his presence.  His first reaction to the town is: "God, they call this a town?  Why 'taint nothing but a raw place in de woods" (34).  And though his first words to the townspeople are that he "means to put man hands tuh de plow heah, and strain every nerve to make dis our town de metropolis uh de state" (42).  He clarifies this by making it clear that he will do this by making everyone do what he thinks is best for the town, and not what anyone else thinks is best or wants to do.  So he continues his initial speech by "So maybe Ah better tell yuh in case you don't know dat if we expect tuh move on, us got tuh incorporate lak every other town" (43).  Essentially from that point onward, Joe speaks as if he knows more than everyone else about running the town or how things should be done (esp. to Janie).

So when Janie and Tea Cake encounter Miss Turner, who holds a similar attitude toward the people of the muck that Joe held toward the people of Eatonville, no wonder Tea Cake is so afraid of Miss Turner's brother.  Without this parallel between Miss Turner and Joe, it would be unclear why Tea Cake is afraid of Janie's potential interest in Miss Turner's brother until he dies.  Tea Cake knows that Janie comes from high standing, and is initially afraid of fully exposing her to his low-class-ness, as evidenced by the scene where he explains how he spent Janie's $200.  Though Janie continually reassures him that this is not a problem for her, there is no evidence that Tea Cake is ever completely convinced.  So when Miss Turner comes along, and all she can talk about is how good Janie is compared to Tea Cake, how Janie should be in a more high-class situation, how she absolutely dissapproves of the rest of the town, and how her own brother is a good candidate given all of these reasons, no wonder Tea Cake becomes so worried and obsessed.  Tea Cake himself has believed (or still believes?) the same things about Janie.  Luckily, since Joe's death, Janie she is not affected by what anyone else thinks she should or should not do.  But, again, Tea Cake can't know this.  He sees Miss Turner's brother as a potential Joe-the-second, and thus a potential rival who could potentially take Janie away from him, without ever having met the brother or knowing that Joe successfully took Janie away from her previous husband.