Love is very artificial throughout the story for Janie, many of her relationships were not genuine. In their society black women often tried to marry rich men for happiness, but Janie is not part of that stereotype and refuses to think of marriage that way. Nanny believes marriage to rich men is the only way for Janie to be happy, but since Janie never experienced the same things as Nanny she doesn’t view love like that. Jannie instead wants marriage to feel genuine like it was for her and Tea Cake. In this part of the novel, she is being forced by Nanny to marry Logan because he has land and money to take care of her. Jannie appreciates this, but throughout their relationship, Logan was being abusive and threatened to kill her at one point.
