PLEASE HELP ME WITH THE MEANING OF THIS QUOTE: "She wasn’t petal-open anymore with him. She was twenty-four and seven years married when she knew. She found that one day when he slapped her face in the kitchen. It happened over one of those dinners that chasten all women sometimes…. [H]e slapped Janie until she had a ringing sound in her ears…"

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Huston