There eyes were watching god

The scence that interests me is when Jody buys all the land, and then decides to build the store and post office, in this scene it seems that Jody is all about doing the right thing. He hosts a town meeting so he can tell everyone what he is doing, and then he ends up becoming mayor of the town. This interest me because he's doing the right thing by making the town better. Jody is not doing the right thing by treating Janie like crap and not letting herlive her life the way she wants to