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Throughout the book, Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie goes through multiple relationships that are each different from each other. Her first husband Logan was old and boring, Jody was wealthy and powerful, and Tea Cake was the love of her life, but ended terribly. These three men all start out as good men but the relationships all take a turn whether with Logan who she leaves for Jody, or Jody turning into a sour old man and dying, or the death of Tea Cake after he got rabies. Each man made her feel like a different person. Whether they made her feel like she had to wear the mask and hide her true feelings, or allowed her to be herself while treating her with respect.

Logan Killicks was a man that Janie didn't marry for love or lust, she married him because she felt like she had to. Her Nanny’s last dying which was to see her married off to a good man that could take care of her when she was long gone. Janie thought maybe she could learn to love the man she married, but she soon realized she was wrong. Although Logan started out with saying sweet things to her, she came to realize that the honeymoon phase is over faster than you think. Logan makes Janie feel as if she is ungrateful for what she has been given, and verbally tears her down. He sees woman as objects that are there for men to use as they please. He has no respect for Janie, and treats her as if she is a spoiled brat. Although he isn't physically abusive, his words hurt the same. Janie feels trapped with a verbally abusive man that she doesn't love, and she's wasting her life away with him. Each day that goes by she feels more and more like she needs to get away from him. This old and bitter man was as ugly inside as he was out, and she deser...

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...will make her feel as though she was equal to them, that she deserved to speak her mind and didn't control her.

The three relationships that are portrayed throughout the book show how each man had affected the way Janie acted. Whether it made her feel small and belittled, or exuberant and free. Although from an early age Janie was taught by her Nanny that she should depend on men to take care of her, she realizes after Jody’s death that she isn’t going to live like this anymore. She’s not going to let any man decide what she should think, how to dress, or act. She was going to speak her mind and feel how she wanted to feel. By the end of the novel, Janie had the relationship she dreamed about under the pear tree when she was a child. The story started with Janie alone with the yearning for lust and love, and ended with her alone, satisfied with the life she lived.