Analysis Of Janie In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Janie goes through a series of different relationships with three very different men. As time goes by, and her husbands change, she starts learning more and more about herself. In the beginning of the story, she has no confidence and hardly knows how to live her life, but by the end of the story, she is strong-minded and pleased with the way her life turned out. Before she knew how her life was going to turn out, Janie was married at a very young age to a much older man named Logan Killicks. It was not Janie’s choice to marry at such an early age, nor was Logan a man of her choice. Her Grandmother, in fact, decided to marry her off as soon as she found out…show more content…
She thought that he’d be worth a try, and would probably be a better man for her than Logan was. The two of them went on to find a newly made town of black folk called Eatonville. When they arrived, it wasn’t quite what they had expected, and Joe, also known as Jody, ended up investing quite a bit in it, and made the town prosper. Him and Janie married not too long after, and he became the mayor of the newly thrived town, making Janie the “better than the rest” wife. At first Janie had a liking to Jody, and thought that he was a good man, but later she found out his true personality, which was vain. He didn’t care about how Janie felt and was really only interested in the idea of the mayor’s wife. He felt like he always needs to have the power. Janie said that Jody needed to “have his way all his life, trample and mash down and then die ruther than tuh let himself heah ’bout it”. He didn’t let Janie socialize with the community, even when it’s what she wanted to do, and he tried as much as he could to stop her from emerging in any way. When Jody was at his deathbed, Janie got her revenge through a rampage of harsh words to him. Janie finally expressed herself via social nuance, and began expanding the proud feeling she has for

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