Their Eyes Were Watching God Literary Analysis

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Sometimes marriages aren't so easy. Freedom isn't always guaranteed. Love isn't something to throw around. In the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Janie, the main character, finds herself confused about love and her own identity, most of the time. After going through three marriages, Janie finds freedom, and the true love she has been seeking.

Janie was a woman who was idealistic and young at heart. Her nanny married her off to Logan, an older man. Finding life tedious and unfullfilling with Logan she left him for another guy named Joe. Janie thought Joe loved her, he didn't. Janie was a nieve woman, at the time, and she stayed with Joe for twenty years. During their marriage, Joe belittles Janie

In Janies days woman were not very free. They had to do what was expected of them and wear certain clothes and marry the men that there guardians marry them off too. “Mrs. Turner forgive her for wearing overalls like the other women who worked in the fields.” (chap. 16 pg. 2 para. 2. Line. 6). Janie, however, is free at the moment, she is a widow, and she is in charge. While Janie is keeping hte store running she meets a yougn man named Tea Cake. Now, Tea Cake is way younger than Janie is. Tea Cake seemed to really like Janie. Janie was so hoping to get love but also, enjoyed her freedom was a bit at a standstill. She didn't know if he was a good man or if he wanted her for her money, becuase that's what she had heard from her friends. Tea Cake happened to catch Janie's attention enough that they did get married. They went off to another town to live their life. Tea Cake had given Janie freedom he let her do thing swith him that woman shouldn;t of been doing. They went fishing together, hunting together, and all other kinds of things. “Tea Cake and Janie gone hunting” (chap. 12 pg. 1 para. 1 line 1). They both were slowly falling in love with each

Janie had aways longed for real love. She had always wanted someone to stay with her and someoen who was fun and cared for her. Tea Cake was a very kind gentlman. He always wanted the best for the both fo them. He always included Janie. They were having a great life, thign swere going good. They were both happy. In there small little town they had a hurricane. Everyoen in the town was evacuating, while Tea Cake and Janie wanted to stay and keep the crops going and nto loose the harvest. Well, the hurricane got really bad and there was really bad wind. Janie and Tea Cake still decided to stay. The Hurricane finally hit them. As they tried to stay above all the water and the damaged things, it was quite hard. Tea Cake saw Janie having trouble stayign uo above the water as they were crossing a bank to get to higher land. He had to hold Janie up while he swam to the bank. “Janie could not hold up more than a few strokes at a time, so Tea Cake bore her up till finally they hit a ridge that led on towards the fill.” (chap 18, pg. 11, para 4, line 2.) Tea Cake really loved Janie, enough to help her get over to the other side of the ridge. When they both reached the other side of the ridge, they came across an angry dog. He tried to get rid of it and in doing so he got bit. The storm finally passed and they both survived even though Janie was injured and so was Tea Cake. They started to clean up the place and after a few days of Tea Cake