Analysis Of Jonah's Gourd Vine By Zora Neale

How Hard Can It Be For Someone To Change? Maturing can be one of the hardest part of growth for a human being. In Zora Neale Hurston’s first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, John Buddy Pearson attempts to mature over the course of his life. John and his wife Lucy move to Florida to try to make a good life. However, things do not go as planned when John decides to commit adultery multiple times. In the book of Jonah’s Gourd Vine, over the course of his lifetime, John is not able to change or mature. Throughout the book, John has the same mindset in the book because he is immature and stubborn. He gets married three times and two of them failed because he cheats on them and abuses. His first wife Lucy, they have kids. Then cheats with a woman by the name of Hattie Tyson. John gets a job as the preacher at Zion Hope Church in Florida. He almost loses his church due to his sexual affairs and domestic violence that the whole church knew about. After Lucy dies, he gets married to his mistress Hattie a few months later. John says “ I didn’t just marry her to wait on the children, she has to have some pleasure” (138). So he only

Hattie tries to conjure him by going to a voodoo woman to put a curse on him. John and Hattie decides to get a divorce. After the divorce, John leaves to preach at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church and meets a new woman by the name of Sally Lovelace. Sally becomes John’s third wife. She takes Jonh in after he begins to lose everything and become poor. They begin to live a happy married life together. He goes back in town to visit Sanford. He went to the church and had dinner with Hambo. Later, John meets a young woman by the name of Ora Patton. She was a gold digger that everyone in town knew about and warned John of. She was using him for his car and money. On his way back home to Sally’s he dies in a car accident. And Sally decides to give the money to his