Their Eyes were Watching God is a story about the coming of age of a young woman, particularly growing her ideas about love. This story follows the evolution of love through Janie’s three marriages. Janie’s viewpoint on love comes full circle and in the end she holds a clear idea on what it means to love. Janie comes of age during her three marriages in different ways by learning different lessons through each man.
Janie's first marriage with Logan Killicks ripped away her earliest dream and gave her a reality check on marriage. In the early chapters, Janie’s first marriage was to Logan Killicks, an older, working man from the same town as janie. Janie isn’t too attracted to Logan as a man, however, she is attracted to the idea of love. Janie’s …show more content…
Tea Cake Woods was nothing she expected, but everything she had ever hoped for in love and more. Her initial attraction was caused by his free-spirited nature, especially the fact that he viewed her as an equal, unlike Jody, attracted her to him. The game of checkers showcased a lot to Janie about the type of man that Jody was. She and Jody had a very natural marriage; everything flowed well between the two. However, this marriage, too, came to a brutal end. [context]. One night in the middle of Tea Cakes episodes of sickness. Janie comes to a heart-wrenching realization. The author illustrates that “Janie saw a changing look come in his face. Tea Cake was gone” (Hurston 181). Janie left this marriage because Tea Cake had left her. Though it was involuntarily, Tea Cake was the one who ended the marriage before it was truly over. Janie knew that Tea Cake was no longer her Tea Cake. She knew that this basically some wild beast in the form of Tea Cakes body. In the end, she learns what true love really is. Tea Cake showed her love in its rawest, most natural form. Janie tells her friend Pheoby at the end of the novel that “love ain’t something lak grindstone that's the same everywhere...Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin thing, but still and all,it takes, its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore” (Hurston 191). Janie’s ideas about love have clearly evolved from thing that marriage is supposed to happen in a certain way and that love is a product of marriage to knowing love is natural and it just happens as does
Janie's first marriage with Logan Killicks ripped away her earliest dream and gave her a reality check on marriage. In the early chapters, Janie’s first marriage was to Logan Killicks, an older, working man from the same town as janie. Janie isn’t too attracted to Logan as a man, however, she is attracted to the idea of love. Janie’s …show more content…
Tea Cake Woods was nothing she expected, but everything she had ever hoped for in love and more. Her initial attraction was caused by his free-spirited nature, especially the fact that he viewed her as an equal, unlike Jody, attracted her to him. The game of checkers showcased a lot to Janie about the type of man that Jody was. She and Jody had a very natural marriage; everything flowed well between the two. However, this marriage, too, came to a brutal end. [context]. One night in the middle of Tea Cakes episodes of sickness. Janie comes to a heart-wrenching realization. The author illustrates that “Janie saw a changing look come in his face. Tea Cake was gone” (Hurston 181). Janie left this marriage because Tea Cake had left her. Though it was involuntarily, Tea Cake was the one who ended the marriage before it was truly over. Janie knew that Tea Cake was no longer her Tea Cake. She knew that this basically some wild beast in the form of Tea Cakes body. In the end, she learns what true love really is. Tea Cake showed her love in its rawest, most natural form. Janie tells her friend Pheoby at the end of the novel that “love ain’t something lak grindstone that's the same everywhere...Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin thing, but still and all,it takes, its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore” (Hurston 191). Janie’s ideas about love have clearly evolved from thing that marriage is supposed to happen in a certain way and that love is a product of marriage to knowing love is natural and it just happens as does