Character Analysis Of Janie Mae Crawford In Their Eyes Were Watching God

The novel this essay is about is Their eyes were Watching God. In this book the main characters name is Janie Mae Crawford. Janie has many relationships with men in this novel to be specific she marries 3 different men during her life. In her second marriage she is married to a man named Joe Starks. Joe dies towards the middle of the novel and she then moves on to her 3rd marriage. Joe’s death illuminated the meaning of the novel which is, in love being treated like an object and not a lover will destroy your relationship as a whole. When Janie runs away from her first husband Logan KiIlicks with her new found love and 2nd husband Jody Starks they go to an all-black town named Eatonville. Jody becomes the mayor and he begins to run everything in Eatonville. When Janie becomes involved in the city their marriage takes a rocky turn because Jody tries to keep her away from the townspeople. He also begins to treat her like an object; he tries to control everything she does and he shows her no love anymore and this makes her angry. Janie begins to rebel against Jody and they begin to argue a lot. Jody becomes very ill from kidney problems. Janie confronts him about the terrible things he’s done in their marriage. She begins …show more content…
“The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and tied it back up again.” (Hurston 87). This quote is an example of her new found happiness because when they were married Jody made Janie change herself in ways she did not like. He did this because she was a charming women and he did not want any other men to look at her in an intimate way. An example of him making her cover herself is when he made her cover her hair up every day. With death of Jody, Janie broke free from his 20 year possessive control over her and began her own