Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie, the main character struggled with being who she was on the inside. Although she had many husbands that she loved in different ways she never had the opportunity to be her true self until she met Tea Cake. With Janie’s first two husbands she was forced in many ways to be someone she really wasn’t. This novel relates to Edna Pontelliers quote “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions” because through the story she had to conform to the way others wanted her to be. In the novel Janie married her first husband Logan Killicks not because she loved him but because it was what her grandma wanted. Her grandma wanted her to marry him because she knew that with her declining
