Imagine a man who has all perfect qualities. Now look into the real world. Nobody is perfect, and nobody makes all the right decisions all the time. In the novel, The Kite Runner, Janie has conflicts with her three husbands and cannot find what she wants in a man. Even though Janie’s three husbands, Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake, show courage and provide for Janie, they often fail to appreciate her. Janie's first husband, Logan, provides for Janie, but fails to appreciate her for all that he makes her do. Most women like men who can appreciate them. Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, catches her with Johnny Taylor. Nanny doesn’t trust him and wants Janie with a man who works. So Nanny forces Janie to marry Logan Killicks. Even though Logan provides security for her, he never appreciates her for all that she does, He makes her work. One morning Logan says to Janie, “Looka heah, LilBit, help me out …show more content…
He is a good businessman but treats Janie as an object rather than a person. Joe became the mayor of a town and made change, but he couldn’t change himself. While Joe is on his death bed Janie says to him, “Ah knowed you wasn’t gointuh lissen tuh me. You changes everything but nothin’ don’t change you-not even death” (86). Janie was implying that she did not like him and that she wasn’t going to make a huge deal about his death. She also left Logan for him and he still treats her basically the same way, just this time with too much freedom. Instead of Logan making her do too much, Joe makes her do basically nothing. Janie says, “Naw, Jody, it jus’ looks lak it keeps us in some way we ain’t natural wid one ‘nother. You’se always off talkin’ and fixin’ things, and Ah feels lak Ah’m jus’ markin’ time” (46). After a while Janie gets to feeling unproductive and just lazy. Joe provides but all she does is cook. So Joe was a bad husband for Janie because that wasn’t what she wanted in a man, it didn’t turn out the way she thought it