The Theme Of Marriage In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

In the story "Their Eyes Were Watching God" written by Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston uses marriage as a character development process for her chracaters. In the story Janie Crawford,the protagonist of the story, is in her search to understand her own identity to the world, love, and her own happiness. Out of all of these things it takes the Janie three marriages to do so. In each marriage we see a strong growth in character in young Janie's life till the end, but the story also raises the question of reason why she got married in the first place. In short, it was for security,hope for a better life and finally for a new journey that evetually lead to true love. In her first marriage Janie marry's her first husband Logan Killick out of reason …show more content…
In this marraige there is anything but love between Janie and Logan and they often find themselves arguing alot and in him he leaves janie feeling used and unloved. By the end of their marriage Janie start to realize some of her own dream and ambitions and identity which clashes with Logan's, yet seem to blossoms when a new face eneters her life. In her second marriage, we are introduced to Jody Starks, or Jody as janie liked to call him. We are introduced to him at the end of Janie's first marriage and in being unloved and feeling misguided by logan janie runs away with him without hesitation. Jody is an ambitious, cosummate polition and businessman who looks to run his own town as the mayor postmaster and storeowner. He basically builds Eatonville from the ground up and from that gains more land and riches than anyone one else that resides there. With allthis one may think janie would be happy, because all of her riches, yet that is still not the case. Jody in the marriage objectifies her and treats her more as property rather than a actual