Oftentimes, one is able to find him or herself through a relationship. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie, tells of an African American living in Florida in the 1960s goes from one marriage to the next, trying to redeem herself from her failed relationships in order find her own identity. As Janie begins her third marriage with Tea Cake she comes to the realization that she will no longer be…