Janie was a young girl who was willing to do anything to find love. She compared her life to a pear tree. Janie wanted to be loved and kissed by someone like the bees loved the tree. Throughout the book, Janie was struggling to find her identity because she kept looking to find happiness in guys instead of making herself happy. Janie aimed to make everyone else happy and please them, but then she realized that she needed to make herself happy and do things for herself. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the pear tree helps to express her struggle to find her identity. Janie hoped to find love and happiness in a man, but what she got was nothing like she expected it to be. As a young girl, Janie always wanted
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The pear tree represented the love life she wanted, but never really got. She tried to find her happiness through other people. The novel states, “Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a women” (Hurston 7). Janie gave up on trying to find love because she had her heart broken so many times. She knew that not everyone found love and her one true goal in life was to find love. Since she did not do that she had given up on her goals and realized that maybe she should just give up her childish dreams and grow up. As Hurston states, “Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?” (Hurston 21). She then realized that just because you’re married to someone doesn’t mean you are in love with the person. This restricted Janie from expanding her branches and getting to know what true love really was. This is because she was forced into her first marriage, she wasn’t happy in her second marriage, and her third husband, who she actually loved, died. So, she never really got a long lasting love like what she wanted. Janie believed that if she were to marry a man that she would eventually learn to love him. Janie constantly struggled to find what she was looking for in
The pear tree represented the love life she wanted, but never really got. She tried to find her happiness through other people. The novel states, “Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a women” (Hurston 7). Janie gave up on trying to find love because she had her heart broken so many times. She knew that not everyone found love and her one true goal in life was to find love. Since she did not do that she had given up on her goals and realized that maybe she should just give up her childish dreams and grow up. As Hurston states, “Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?” (Hurston 21). She then realized that just because you’re married to someone doesn’t mean you are in love with the person. This restricted Janie from expanding her branches and getting to know what true love really was. This is because she was forced into her first marriage, she wasn’t happy in her second marriage, and her third husband, who she actually loved, died. So, she never really got a long lasting love like what she wanted. Janie believed that if she were to marry a man that she would eventually learn to love him. Janie constantly struggled to find what she was looking for in