In the novel, Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie's newfound happiness with Tea Cake is seen as a product of her listening to her own desires. Janie feels that she is "so glad she was scared of herself" (117) foreshadowing the danger and instability of Janie's intense love for Tea Cake, a kind of love that is the polar opposite of Nanny's view of marriage as a source of safety and stability. At the beginning of the chapter Janie's decision to hide money from her new husband, and the anxiety she feels as she thinks of Mrs. Tyler and waits for the disappeared Tea Cake to return, show that Janie also doubts where her desires may lead her. Earlier she feared them and was silent, admittedly agreeing with Nanny's views. However
