Essay On Arranged Marriages

Marriage is the legal or formal recognized union of a man and a woman as partners in a relationship, Arranged marriage is a marriage planned and agreed to by the families of the bride and groom, who have little say in the matter of who they will be marrying . The views on these types of marriages and how they affect people describes one of the ways that our culture has changed over time. Over the last about one hundred years, there has been a decline in the amount of people that get married or people getting divorced. According to the New Yorks Times, 40-50 percent of marriages in America end in divorce ( Lee, "Modern Lessons From Arranged Marriages"). In the past marriage was seen as important because there may be cases when a family would marry into a family that is wealthy and reap the benefits of what they had. Now a days though people have become more self-sufficient so marriage isn’t seen as the true goal of numerous people. In the 1930’s though there were times when people as …show more content…
Janie believed that she should love someone before she gets married. Her grandmother believes that she should not worry about marriage, but she should rather worry about being financially stable and be wealthy. Her grandmother’s ideology is similar to that of many cultures that believe in arranged marriage as the ideal way for people to get married. The arranged marriage of Janie and Logan Killicks can be seen as a failure when it comes to arranged marriages, which are statistically proven to be efficient.. After Janie met Joe Starks and decided to tell Logan that she was thinking about leaving him, he responded by saying terrible and hurtful things about Janie and her family, especially her mother and grandmother (Hurston 51). Her marriage to Joe Starks may be seen as just as bad or maybe even worse than her marriage to Logan