PLEASE HELP ME WITH THE MEANING OF THIS QUOTE: "Janie soon began to feel the impact of awe and envy against her sensibilities. The wife of the Mayor was not just another woman as she had supposed. She slept with authority and so she was part of it in the town mind. She couldn't get but so close to most of them in spirit. It was especially noticeable after Joe had been forced through a town ditch to drain the street in front of the store. They had murmured hotly about slavery is over, but every man filled his assignment."

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Huston