Marriage Defining Who You Are
In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God the main character Janie Crawford starts her story as a flashback. She is returning from her final marriage with Tea Cake her husband who she had to kill because he was paranoid from having rabies. While heading back into her home town Eatonville, Florida after being gone from a long absence she overhears people talking her first husband Tea Cake and the rags she is wearing. “Marriage is viewed as a sign of maturity for some, and a lifetime sentence for others.” Janie’s view now consists that love is something that is different from one person to another. At the end of her story she is a strong and proud woman, but in the beginning, she was not sure about what she wants …show more content…
Jody Sparks is Janie’s second husband whose only dream in life is moving up in the world. Jody believes that only with power and wealth can some really matter in the world and everything else is just materials he can use such as Janie for his personal use. “His entire existence is based on purchasing, building, bullying, and political planning. He marries Janie not because he loves her as a person but because he views her as an object that will serve a useful purpose in his schemes. She is young, beautiful, and stately, and thus fits his ideal of what a mayor’s wife should be.” After becoming mayor and announcing his “Big Voice” (the thing he wanted since moving to Eatonville). Jody does not Janie talking to the common people of the town. Thinking of everything as a stepping stool he has to pass to get what he …show more content…
He makes Janie tie her hair up like an old woman fearing the thought that she might try to leave again. Janie is still passionate about her dreams but is very quiet on the surface. After twenty years of being married Joe insults Janie on her looks she replies back and manning his entire existence and strikes her. By the end of their relationship she remains unfulfilled for staying quiet and not expressing her true felling until Joe’s death she explained that she had felt if as she was free.
“Your relationship status does not define who you are or what you do with your life. Sure, relationships –or lack thereof- shape and influence our lives. But in the end, we decide what kind of person we are going to be and what we want to accomplish with the time that we have.”
Janie’s final husband Tea Cake teaches her about love she never knew existed. Also categorized as Janie’s true love because he saw her as a companion rather than an object. He made Janie fell as if she was a child again being that Tea Cake was younger than her he was energetic when it came to anything. He made happy from just spending time with Janie her other husbands felt as though buying her things would make her happy. After running off with Tea Cake she quickly realizes this and makes plans to move again to the
In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God the main character Janie Crawford starts her story as a flashback. She is returning from her final marriage with Tea Cake her husband who she had to kill because he was paranoid from having rabies. While heading back into her home town Eatonville, Florida after being gone from a long absence she overhears people talking her first husband Tea Cake and the rags she is wearing. “Marriage is viewed as a sign of maturity for some, and a lifetime sentence for others.” Janie’s view now consists that love is something that is different from one person to another. At the end of her story she is a strong and proud woman, but in the beginning, she was not sure about what she wants …show more content…
Jody Sparks is Janie’s second husband whose only dream in life is moving up in the world. Jody believes that only with power and wealth can some really matter in the world and everything else is just materials he can use such as Janie for his personal use. “His entire existence is based on purchasing, building, bullying, and political planning. He marries Janie not because he loves her as a person but because he views her as an object that will serve a useful purpose in his schemes. She is young, beautiful, and stately, and thus fits his ideal of what a mayor’s wife should be.” After becoming mayor and announcing his “Big Voice” (the thing he wanted since moving to Eatonville). Jody does not Janie talking to the common people of the town. Thinking of everything as a stepping stool he has to pass to get what he …show more content…
He makes Janie tie her hair up like an old woman fearing the thought that she might try to leave again. Janie is still passionate about her dreams but is very quiet on the surface. After twenty years of being married Joe insults Janie on her looks she replies back and manning his entire existence and strikes her. By the end of their relationship she remains unfulfilled for staying quiet and not expressing her true felling until Joe’s death she explained that she had felt if as she was free.
“Your relationship status does not define who you are or what you do with your life. Sure, relationships –or lack thereof- shape and influence our lives. But in the end, we decide what kind of person we are going to be and what we want to accomplish with the time that we have.”
Janie’s final husband Tea Cake teaches her about love she never knew existed. Also categorized as Janie’s true love because he saw her as a companion rather than an object. He made Janie fell as if she was a child again being that Tea Cake was younger than her he was energetic when it came to anything. He made happy from just spending time with Janie her other husbands felt as though buying her things would make her happy. After running off with Tea Cake she quickly realizes this and makes plans to move again to the