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Throughout her marriages Janie has grown and become a mature woman. When she married Logan Killicks she was a young girl with no idea of the harsh world. She learned that she does not want to be with Logan. “Ah wants to want him sometimes” (Hurston; 3, 26). He does not treat her like wife should be treated, he treats her like a worker. She realizes that this horrible marriage to Logan is not what she dreamed about under the pear tree. When Janie meets Joe Starks he speaks to her in rhymes and promises her the world. Her dreams of a beautiful marriage are alive once again. Joe and Janie move to Eatonville, Florida, an all-black town where Joe becomes mayor. As time progresses and Joe gains more power and respect Janie feels lonely. Joe is so focused with his position that he unknowingly pushes Janie into loneliness and sadness. Joe had taken all the fun and life

Janie went on a long journey to obtain womanhood. Janie grew up living with her grandma, who always wanted her to get married at a young age. Janie eventually did marry Logan Killicks when she was 18 years old. However, she hated living with him. He was described as a shallow, unlovable human being. This was when Janie became a woman because she realized that marriage does not assure love. Janie then married Jody Starks. At first, he seemed like a good person because he offered her a new life, but over time grew worse. Jody would constantly restrict what Janie could do, and would beat her for simple errors. It was not until late in their marriage that Janie finally spoke out to Jody of the way he treated her. Jody would soon die, and Janie

In Zora Neale Hurston’s romantic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the heroine Janie, a beautiful mixed white and black woman, is on a journey to find someone who will make her feel love to find her own identity and freedom, away from her spouses. Janie’s marriages and quest for love impede her individual search for freedom, but in doing this she has discovered what exactly she wants for herself. Janie’s search for her identity and freedom is very much evident. Being abused and controlled during her marriages has made it clear how she wants to be treated and how she wants to live her life; as an individual who does not have to listen to anyone. The story opens with Janie’s return to town. Janie tells Phoebe Watson the story of her

Instead of treating Janie like the beautiful woman that she is, he uses her as an object. Joe was a man who “treasured [Janie] as a posession” (Berridge). Joe’s demanding nature suppresses Janie’s urge to grow and develop, thus causing her journey to self-realization to take steps backward rather than forward. In Janie’s opinion, “he needs to “have [his] way all [his] life, trample and mash down and then die ruther than tuh let [him]self heah 'bout it” (Hurston 122). It is almost as if Janie loses sense of her own self-consciousness due to the fact that she becomes like a puppy being told what to do by her master. The death of Jody is actually a positive thing. Joe’s controlling nature stifles Janie’s inner voice. While married to Jody, Janie became closer to others, however, she did not become closer to herself. Being on her own again gave her another chance to embark on her journey and realize who Janie Crawford really is.

Janie did not want to marry Logan Killlicks but she was also trying to be a little positive about it too. She felt lonely so she thought that maybe this marriage will bring her a good friend and husband and she won’t have to feel alone anymore. She just wanted to feel loved and have someone who cared for her by her side, “Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldly. She wouldn't be lonely anymore”

Janie got married to Jody right after she ran away from Logan Killicks. Janie was immediately attracted to Jody because of his confidence and wealth, and at the time, was everything Janie wanted in a man. Soon after Jody became the mayor of Eatonville he becomes focused on gaining more power and ignored Janie's needs and wants. Jody, like Logan, expects Janie to act like a proper wife of that time. Janie eventually just puts up with Jody's demands but discovers that she is miserable because of it. In this marriage with Jody Janie learns how honesty is important to a stable

Throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford searches for unconditional and fulfilling love. She experiences different degrees of love throughout her life, primarily through her three marriages. As she strives to find her own sense of love and independence, Janie encounters judgement from the townspeople during various points in the novel. In the novel, Zora Neale Hurston uses diction and symbolism in order to prove that one must develop their own sense of independence before they can obtain their desired love, which may involve one going outside of their expected role or comfort zone within society.

Everyone wants to say they lived their life to the fullest. Janie, the main character in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston is no different. With the help of finding love, Janie reaches her horizon when she feels comfortable with her life experiences and realizes her self-worth. Janie goes through a spiritual reassessment after having unique occurrences with three different husbands. At the end of the novel, she can sit back, reflect on her life and truly be satisfied.

In Zora Neal Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, it tells a story of an African American woman living in Florida during the 1930s. The narrator, Janie Mae Crawford, gives her best friend, Pheoby, a flashback of her three marriages. While she tells her story, the reader sees the power of the female during the marriage, and the power of the male during the marriage. Although, she does not have a decision whether she wants to marry or not, Janie is a strong independent women who is able to support herself through the hardships she endures.

to love. Under a pear tree, she watches a bee pollinate a flower and associates it with what she believes to be the concept of love and yearns to experience it herself. She marries, expecting to love her betrothed simply because they are husband and wife, and is disappointed when she can find no affection in her heart for the man. This is not the life that Janie had hoped for, and so when Joe Starks came around and promised Janie the world, she was swept away by hope for something new— a “far horizon”. (Chapter 4, page 29)

When the marriage of Jody and Janie began to fall apart, Janie’s views were changed and she was no longer able to see the positive sides of marriage and love. After leaving her first marriage and running off with Jody to the town of Eatonville, Janie spent a large part of her life serving him. When Jody hit her, Janie had noticed the fierce intentions

Janie's first love Logan Killicks was the start of her journey from becoming a young lady into a woman. She got married for

From the beginning of her life, Janie always listens to her grandmother, as every child should. However, when she was of age, her grandmother decides that she should marry a well-paid and secure man even if the love isn’t there from the start. Although Janie originally opposes the idea, her grandmother convinces her that this is what she truly wants. Eventually Janie realizes that she was living the dream of her grandmother, not her own dream. She leaves her unhappy marriage with Logan and follows another man who also tells her of a promising future. Progressing into the second marriage, Janie is left unsatisfied. Like her first marriage, she agrees to her second marriage by persuasion and wishful thinking.

Her first relationship is with Logan, an old man she reluctantly married because of her grandma’s last wishes. Even though he pampers her and showers her praises, she lives a sad and lonely life. She doesn’t love him, even though she tries, “...You told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it”(23). So, the first chance she gets, she runs off with Jody, the second man she marries. This shows that Janie’s and Logan’s relationship was not what she wanted.

Janie realizes that in order to keep herself alive and to have some sense of being, she would have to store little pieces of herself away. Throughout the novel, Janie is looking for something or someone that she has never known and attempts to find this union between love and marriage that she so idealized when sitting under the pear trees seeing the symbiosis of the bee’s and the tree. Because she did not know what it was that she was looking for, she made some mistakes along the way. This includes meeting men such as Logan Killicks, she found that he did not appreciate her the way she wanted to be appreciated, as a woman, finding that marriage does not equate to love thus killing a sense of innocence she has. Also her marriage with Jodie