“Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day? “ said Janie. The main character Janie in chapter three is getting ready to give up her life to marry a man named Logan Killicks. Her nanny arranges this marriage because she wants Janie to have a good life and she knew that by marrying Logan she would be financially stable. Which was very important to Janie’s nanny since she was a slave, and truly only wants what’s best for Janie to move forward and live the life her grandmother could not. In this Chapter, Janie goes too and fro with the theme of love. She knows that she doesn’t love Logan but believes her nanny when she is told that, that she will grow to love him once they are married.
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However, he uses her and views her as an object that will serve a useful purpose in what he had planned. He abused Janie mentally and physically because he was all about his masculinity. Janie had to change who she was to please him. She had to do little things such as put her hair up in a rag so men won’t look at her beautiful long hair. Jody constantly would put janie down if he began to feel a bit insecure of his strong masculinity. Janie did everything right for him and still wasn’t enough. She then realized she too does not love him either. Jody dies and she does not mourn she does not feel anything …show more content…
Yet, manages to steal money from her behind her back and spends it on who knows what because I didn’t believe that whole story he told her. However, he does repay it but the fact is that he stole it that alone would tell me that there is no trust in this man. They do live a nice life for the most part and Tea Cake was very different from the other two men that Janie had been with. In Tea Cake, she finds a creative and vivacious personality who enjoys probing the world around him and respects Janie’s need to develop. Janie had begun to build up her pride towards the end of her relationship with Jody and Tea cake just helps her to continue to find
However, he uses her and views her as an object that will serve a useful purpose in what he had planned. He abused Janie mentally and physically because he was all about his masculinity. Janie had to change who she was to please him. She had to do little things such as put her hair up in a rag so men won’t look at her beautiful long hair. Jody constantly would put janie down if he began to feel a bit insecure of his strong masculinity. Janie did everything right for him and still wasn’t enough. She then realized she too does not love him either. Jody dies and she does not mourn she does not feel anything …show more content…
Yet, manages to steal money from her behind her back and spends it on who knows what because I didn’t believe that whole story he told her. However, he does repay it but the fact is that he stole it that alone would tell me that there is no trust in this man. They do live a nice life for the most part and Tea Cake was very different from the other two men that Janie had been with. In Tea Cake, she finds a creative and vivacious personality who enjoys probing the world around him and respects Janie’s need to develop. Janie had begun to build up her pride towards the end of her relationship with Jody and Tea cake just helps her to continue to find