Marriage is not what most people imagine, love is not perfect and neither is a relationship. In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston portrays the the story of a young African-American girl named Janie who is married off to someone she does not love. Yearning for true feeling, Janie runs away and remarries to a promising rich man, only to discover that there is once again a lack of love. After almost twenty years of enduring, Janie’s second husband passes away, and by chance she meets the love of her life. However, this happiness is short lived as she is ridiculed for being with a younger man, whom not too long after their marriage, meets a rather unfortunate demise. Throughout the course of the novel, Janie ascends from a rather ignorant and submissive wife of imitated love, to a wiser more lively one of genuine
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Simply getting married does not guarantee that one will find love. Before her first marriage, Janie believes that marrying Logan Killicks will bring her the love she so craves, thinking to herself, “Yes, she would love Logan after they were married[...]husbands and wives always loved each other”(21). At only sixteen years old, Janie is rather ignorant to the ever changing complexities of love, believing that true love is easily attainable. Janie is also blinded by the false illusion that all marriages are happy and the product of simple love for one another. Her lack of affection and acceptance for Logan shows the facade behind their love and thus her ignorance of it. After staying with Logan for a year or two, Janie realizes that they have not made any progress together, thinking to herself ,”She knew now that marriage did not make love.”(25). Janie realizes after almost two years, that her marriage with Logan is not what she had imagined,
Simply getting married does not guarantee that one will find love. Before her first marriage, Janie believes that marrying Logan Killicks will bring her the love she so craves, thinking to herself, “Yes, she would love Logan after they were married[...]husbands and wives always loved each other”(21). At only sixteen years old, Janie is rather ignorant to the ever changing complexities of love, believing that true love is easily attainable. Janie is also blinded by the false illusion that all marriages are happy and the product of simple love for one another. Her lack of affection and acceptance for Logan shows the facade behind their love and thus her ignorance of it. After staying with Logan for a year or two, Janie realizes that they have not made any progress together, thinking to herself ,”She knew now that marriage did not make love.”(25). Janie realizes after almost two years, that her marriage with Logan is not what she had imagined,