A Case Study Involving A Counselor Who Violates The American Counseling Association Code Of Ethics

Janie’s outward appearance and her inward thoughts contrast following Joe’s death. She finally frees herself from his control only after he dies as she, “…tore off the kerchief…and let down her plentiful hair” (87). In freeing her hair, Janie begins to free herself from others’ control and social norms. However, she chooses to keep it tied up until after Jody’s funeral in order to keep appearances that she is grieving his passing in front of the townspeople. However, on the inside, Janie doesn’t really feel any sorrow and “sent her face to Joe’s funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world” (88). It is only after Joe’s elaborate funeral that Janie shows her first act of freedom by burning “every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist” (89). She chose to let her hair be free from his domination, thus freeing herself from him overall and allowing herself to move onto the next journey in her life.

The death of Joe Starks characterizes Janie’s freedom and growth into self-love. Joe Starks’ cruelty and high expectations of Janie kill their marriage before love has anytime to be born, forcing Janie to gain a sense of self-preservation. Before the couple are married for a month, Joe publically degrades Janie at his mayoral commensuration. Joe tells the public Janie is too simple to give a speech, and “[i]t must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things” (Hurston 43). Janie realizes Joe Starks is not the man who will lead her to her horizon. She laments after years of marriage, “[s]he got nothing from Jody except what money could buy…” (Hurston 76). Those years of constant battering “…took all the fight out of Janie’s face… Plenty of fight beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels” (Hurston 76). As quickly as Janie wants to reach her horizon, early into her second marriage she realizes the excitement she had for Joe’s “love” was all for naught. Gurleen Grewal goes so far to state, “…the ‘high ruling chair’ Joe Starks sat on is incompatible with flower dust… No less than Killicks, Starks stifled Eros” (Grewal 107-8). Janie’s marriage with Joe taught her to not fight a losing battle. Janie learned there is no point to fighting what you cannot change. Consequently, Janie maintained silence for most of her marriage with Joe, just like he wanted. He had married Janie for a

Janie’s inner self is entirely composed of her desires, needs, and true feelings. When Joe dies, Janie is internally genuinely happy; However, she can only express this inwardly because she can’t portray her husbands death as a happy aspect to society. On the outside, Janie participates in the funeral and the requisite mourning period; while inwardly, rejoicing.

Janie’s relationship with her second husband, Joe Starks, is perhaps the most damaging. In the beginning of their marriage, Janie is proud and admiring of the successful, strong man she marries and runs off with. At first, it seems as though Janie has executed a successful breakaway from her unfulfilling life with Logan Killicks, and transitioned to an exciting, happy life with Joe Starks. Unfortunately, Janie and Joe’s marriage retracts from the infatuated love it once was, into a

Joe ends up becoming the Mayor, Post Master, storekeeper, and the biggest landlord in the town. Although this is all fine for him, Janie in the mean time is not happy with the relationship and struggles to deal with it. Over the years Janie places all of her old dreams into the corner of her soul. She submits to Jody's need for control on the outside but on the inside she hides her real feelings and her real self. At one of the town meetings someone asks for a “few words uh encouragement from Mrs. Mayor Starks” and Joe replies buy saying, “Thank yuh fuh yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no speech-makin’. Ah never married her for nothin’ lak dat. She’s uh woman and her place is in de home”(41) After hearing this from Joe, Janie feels as though, “that took the bloom off of things”(41). She is no longer truly in love with him anymore. After Joe dies, Janie feels free for the first time in years. Janie is in the room when Joe dies and soon after, she walks across the room to the mirror and tells herself that she, “The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place”(83). Janie becomes a more independently thinking woman after his death because she doesn’t have the restriction that Joe forced on her. She is free from Joes dominant self and can now do what she pleases, which ends up being a very good thing for her.

He acted upon these initial feelings and started to communicate with her. Janie Also acted upon her feelings and agreed to start a relationship with this man, even though it might not be filled with “pollen and blooming trees, he spoke for far horizon” (C.4 p. 29). Janie felt as if Joe could satisfy her every need eventually. It just needed time to flourish. Joe started the relationship off by expressing to Janie that she was meant to be almost worshipped and that “she never knowed what it was to be treated like a lady” and he was here to show her what she's been missing out on. This later turns into irony. Joe is elected mayor of a town and becomes this powerful character with too much ego to bare. He starts to ask Janie to run the store that he put up for the people of his town, even though he claimed that a “ pretty doll-baby leak her is made to sit on de front porch and and rock and fan herself and eat p’taters dat other folks plant just for her” (C.4 p.29) so the guy that Janie thought was supposed to be her knight and shining armor, turned out to be her previous love in all the disguise of power and

Joe Starks, a charismatic, charming, and achievement-seeking man came to Janie one day and became her new love interest. Though she was still married to Logan, she wanted to be with Joe for she saw promise in him, though the seed of fear Nanny planted held her back: “Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon. He spoke for change and chance. Still she hung back. The memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong (Hurston 29). Though her fear of being unprotected was strong, the hope that love could be rejuvenated within her was stronger, so she went off to Joe Starks. Over the course of the relationship, her image of love was once again shattered. The charm that Joe wore on his sleeves wore off, and she came to realize that Joe had never valued her more than a person would value any everyday object. Over the course of the relationship, the power Joe has over Janie loses strength. As the marriage falters and eventually ends after Joe dies because of his failing kidneys, Janie is left to ruminate over the unhappiness she’s been dealt with in her relationships, leading her to believe that love just may not exist: “Most humans didn’t love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time” (Hurston

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered” (72). At this point Janie lost all faith in Joe and was only regained slightly when he

In the story, Their Eyes Were Watching God the author Zora Neale Hurston used the central idea that once people get a little power their true colors come out. This meaning that once you get some money, status, or popularity you start feeling yourself and you soon become the real you. Zora uses the literary element characterization to further develop the central idea. An example of this element would be Janie's husband, Joe Starks. When Joe first meets Janie, he was characterized as this sweet and loving guy.

Financially Joe is better, Joe is a politician, businessman, mayor, and landlord in Eatonville, Florida. But that’s not enough, she want to be treated right and showed off in public, but Joe doesn’t treat Janie like a human being. Joe treats Janie like an object rather than a person, he try to control her as much as he can. After 20 years of marriage, Joe is getting older and older, Janie had enough of it. She made her appearance known when she broke out of silence and told the townspeople how Joe treats him. After months later Joe become more ill and in the verge of dying. Janie watched Joe died in his

Joe continues to mistreat and dominate over Janie. She is not allowed to join in on conversation with the porch sitters accusing Matt Bonner of mistreating his yellow mule. She is not allowed to show her hair in the store and is forced to wear a head-rag. “She was there in the store for him to look at, not those others” (52). Would Janie feel differently about Joe if he told her about his jealousy? Perhaps they may become closer and become a true, loving couple if they told their true feelings. Why would Joe treat her like this if he felt that way about her? Perhaps he only wants her for her looks and wants the best for himself so others can’t have her, just like all the other possessions he has built and acquired in his town. He merely wants

Not long after Joe’s death, men around town come flocking to her, wondering who she was going to choose to marry after she finished mourning. No one was able to make any advances, for Janie shooed them away, claiming that she was busy.

a job. Joe on the other hand wants her back but she refuses, and in

Joseph refuses to return to work, himself for the death. Brenda has reached the end of her patience with Joseph, because he has become a disrespectful, angry and violent drunk, who abuses her and their daughter. He roams the streets intoxicated going to the seedy side of town to strip clubs and has in extramarital

This concerns Joe because Kate thinks of Annie as Larry’s girlfriend, and Kate is in denial about Larry’s death so if Chris marries Annie, Kate would have to accept that Larry is dead and she would be upset! “You marry that girl and you’re pronouncing him dead”. Self-protection is Joe’s main motive but he presents this sense of urgency under guise of being concerned about Kate. Joe is completely unconcerned with Chris’ desire to marry Ann “Well, that’s only your business, Chris”. He is unwilling to persuade Kate as he has a greater concern in protecting himself. Keller tells Chris that he should look elsewhere. Chris argues that he has waited three years to marry Ann in waiting he hoped Mother would forget about Larry. If that cannot be done then he is determined to move elsewhere. This sets of alarm bells for Joe, as he wants Chris to take over the business; this is effective blackmail. Thus convincing Joe to help persuade Kate about the matter Joe defends his war profits by making money for his family as a way of caring for them. “What the hell did I work for? That’s only for you”. This shows that although Joe is very much a family man he is completely disingenuous, self-serving and egotistical. This contributes to the pessimistic viewpoint of the