Seeing love as a goal, a great achievement, at a young age Janie believed in love and pursued it. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston a woman's obsession to express sexuality evolves. The main character Janie begins her adventure into womanhood at the age of sixteen, unwillingly leaving her innocence behind when she sees a significant correlation with a bee and a pear blossom to sex but mostly love. On a search Janie makes decisions that don’t help her to reach her goal of finding love. However, as the narrative unfolds she finds the love she looks for, or as she believes, confusing that very love with abusive relationships.
Young and curious, Janie wants to explore what she has not experienced yet. Simple nature gives off an undeniable sexual overtone with the bee and pear blossom in the eyes of Janie. The leaf buds as Janie described it was a "snowy virginity" (13) making it easier to visualize the bee and pear blossom as a couple then continuing to identify their encounter as a marriage. “So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation.” (13). While Janie talks …show more content…
Still believing in the power of love Janie was sold off by her grandmother to an older man name Logan Killicks. Her new husband treated as less due to her being white people’s servant and ward her whole life "Considerin’ youse born in a carriage ‘thout no top to it, and yo’ mama and you bein’ born and raised in de white folks back-yard." (36). He considers his hard-earned living classier than Janie, feeling that should be appreciative that he took her out of where she was living. After realizing that she deserved to find that love and the sex she was craving, she decided to run away with another man named Joe Starks. Before long after convincing herself she was finally in love she realized that his jealousy was creating a sense of
Young and curious, Janie wants to explore what she has not experienced yet. Simple nature gives off an undeniable sexual overtone with the bee and pear blossom in the eyes of Janie. The leaf buds as Janie described it was a "snowy virginity" (13) making it easier to visualize the bee and pear blossom as a couple then continuing to identify their encounter as a marriage. “So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation.” (13). While Janie talks …show more content…
Still believing in the power of love Janie was sold off by her grandmother to an older man name Logan Killicks. Her new husband treated as less due to her being white people’s servant and ward her whole life "Considerin’ youse born in a carriage ‘thout no top to it, and yo’ mama and you bein’ born and raised in de white folks back-yard." (36). He considers his hard-earned living classier than Janie, feeling that should be appreciative that he took her out of where she was living. After realizing that she deserved to find that love and the sex she was craving, she decided to run away with another man named Joe Starks. Before long after convincing herself she was finally in love she realized that his jealousy was creating a sense of