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Logan was a man who fulfilled Nanny’s materialistic dreams but not Janie’s dreams of the pear tree (Litwin 25). In Janie’s eyes, “the vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree” (Hurston 14). This marriage proves to be loveless and lonely for Janie and makes her realize that “marriage did not make love” (Hurston 25; Hemenway, “Crayon Enlargements” 89). The realization comes after Logan makes Janie work by cutting potatoes for planting and when Logan leaves town for a mule calm enough for a woman to handle—intending for Janie to plow the 60 acres he owns (Hurston 31). This sad and short marriage kills Janie’s dreams of what marriage was and forces her to grow quickly from a girl into a woman (Hemenway, “Crayon Enlargements”