Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God

Their Eyes Were Watching God In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is a young girl with dreams who matures into a woman as she lives through three different marriages. Her first marriage is arranged to Logan by her grandmother, who thinks more practically than her. However, she does not love Logan and runs off with Jody. This marriage also turns stale and after Logan’s death she marries once more to Tea Cake which eventually ends with his own tragic death. These three marriages are quite similar in ways, yet Janie gains different experiences from each in her long journey to find herself. Throughout her life, Janie struggles to live life on her own terms as she goes through three periods of her life that are similar, yet definitely vary as Janie ages. The three steps of Janie’s life, which are characterized by each of her three husbands, are very similar in the distinction of Janie’s characteristics and the difficulties in each marriage. Janie wishes for true love and is not content with Logan, her chosen husband. When she visits Nanny, she says, “Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you eyes, watching, god, janie, life, three, marriage, janie’s, each, marriages, tea, jody, different, cake, ah, yet, throughout, through, similar, says, one, love, lak, way, things, relationship, nanny, make, logan, herself, goes, even, eras, woman, wid, whips, ways, watching