Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks was the first stage in her growth as a woman. She hoped that her obligatory marriage with Logan would

Many people believe in marrying for love and they spend most of their life searching for it. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Nora Zeal Hurston, Janie Crawford goes through three marriages, and as a result, she learns who she wants to be and how to become that woman. Janie has her idealized view of marriage that depicts that you marry for love, and everything is like a fairytale. Through Janie’s three marriages, she learns what she truly desires in life and finds herself along the way. As each marriage comes to a close, Janie becomes stronger and surer of herself.

Janie in her first marriage is her far from mesmerized with her husband's 60 acre land. The incompatibility between her and Logan ultimately cause the marriage to fail. Logan

In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she sets the protagonist, Janie Mae Crawford as a woman who wants to find true love and who is struggling to find her identity. To find her identity and true love it takes her three marriages to go through. While being married to three different men who each have different philosophies, Janie comes to understand that she is developed into a strong woman. Hurston makes each idea through each man’s view of Janie, and their relationship with the society. The lifestyle with little hope of or reason to hope for improvement. He holds a sizeable amount of land, but the couple's life involves little interaction with anyone else.

            Janie's first husband was a poor old soul named Logan Killicks.  He was an ugly, dirty farmer whose prime concern for Janie was that she do her share of the work in order to keep the farm up and running.  Janie was simply another pair of hands to do some work.

Love is something that everyone hopes to find at some point in their life. On the journey to find true love, we may find that love can come in many different forms. Few people ever find the kind of passionate love that seems to exist mostly in fairytales. The main character in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, spends most of her life in search of that same genuine, unpretentious fairytale love; a love that she compares to the marriage between bees and the blossoms on pear trees. On her journey to find that kind of love, Janie discovers that there is more than one way to love someone.

(Hurston). She thought that she could learn to love her husband just as long as someone can tell her how. Logan was a very demanding husband who expected Janie to help him around the house and still tend to many things that he felt were “women’s chores” like being in the kitchen. Eventually, Janie got tired of Logan’s demands and ran off with Joe Starks.

Love is different for each and every person. For some, it comes easy and happens early in life. For others, such as Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, it happened much later in life after two unsuccessful marriages. Janie’s grandmother, Nanny raised Janie to be attracted to financial security and physical protection instead of seeking love. Nanny continually emphasized that love was something that was bound to happen after those needs were met; even though Nanny never married. Janie formulates her ideal of love while sitting under a pear tree as a teenager; one that fulfilled her intellectually, emotionally, spiritually and physically. She was then informed that she was to have an arranged marriage to an older

Janie's first marriage was with Logan Killicks. This marriage was arranged by Janie's Nana, and Janie had no say in the marriage. Unfortunately for Janie, when Nana arranged her marriage with Logan Killicks she didn't think about Janie's feelings in any way as her first concern was for Janie's safety and financial security. Unfortunately, Janie and Logan have different views on gender roles. Logan expects his wife obey his demands and to help him out with the farm, while Janie prefers to do the opposite and to leave the physical labor to Logan. In this marriage, Janie learned the lesson that love is the foundation of a strong marriage, as, without love for each other, there can be little motivation to remain loyal in a relationship. Janie also learns that in a working marriage, couples must share similar worldviews about life.

When Janie's Nanny was aging and felt her life ending, she saw Janie maturing quickly and she thought that it would be only proper for her to have a man for protection after she leaves. After Janie was told this, she immediately didn’t want to accept it, but she did anyway. At age 17, she was married with the man named Logan Killicks who was 50 years old. Logan was a lonely man before he met Janie, the only thing he had to offer for her in marrying Janie was his protection, and a 60 acre potato

The poor treatment from Janie’s first husband, Logan Killicks makes Janie realize her need for a loving relationship, where she is more than just a slave to her husband. Janie’s Grandmother

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston revolves around the struggles of Janie Starks to find a certain form of love in a still much divided time in society. This essential theme of love is not actually brought out in full effect until the death of Janie’s second husband, Joe Starks. This death brings about the discovery of Tea Cake, a man who fulfills Janie’s views on love, via the compositions of springtime: bright skies, sunny days, and bugs flying around. It took Janie a constant search for this type of love, and after the death of Joe, she finally found it.

In the novel, Their Eyes were watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, Janie, troubles to find true love. Throughout the novel, Janie finds herself getting into three relationships. However, all but one don’t seem to ever workout.

Her first marriage with Logan Killicks, whom she married shortly after her awakening under the tree, brought a major revelation. Janie found out that “marriage did not make love” (25). The moment she encountered while under the pear tree brought her the expectation of love, but after being married for a short time, she found that love never appeared in this relationship. At first, the marriage seemed like a happy one, but as time went on, and the novelty of being married went away, Janie felt a deepening void. Logan expected her to do hard labor as his previous wife did, but she was reluctant to do so.

She marries Logan, Jody, and Tea Cake on her quest for her ideal relationship. She left Logan for the possibilities that Jody offered her, loss her individuality in her marriage with Jody, and eventually found her ideal husband in Tea Cake with whom she happily spent most of the novel with. However, it could be argued that Janie’s decisions were influenced by other aspects. Her decision to marry Logan could have been swayed by Nanny’s anecdote of her life as a slave and Janie’s mother’s tragic life. Janie could’ve simply left Logan because he was boring and she didn’t love him enough to stay. She could have plainly been seduced away by the charismatic Jody, and Tea Cake could’ve just been Janie’s last shot at love before she got too old. What do you