Janie's Goals In Their Eyes Were Watching God

In life we all have goals and aspirations. So what we do is we spend our whole life searching for this satisfaction. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God the main character Janie was on an exhibition to find happiness. This exhibition was called “the pear tree goal”. Janie’s ambitions in her life were sexuality, marriage, freedom, maturity, and Family. Janie was ill-fated in completing some her goals. This short dissertation will discuss the three pear tree goals that Janie did not acquire; marriage, family, and freedom

When freedom has thought about it is often associated with the soaring of an eagle. Janie’s goal of freedom was not completed. From when the book started to its end, Janie was not free. If we look at some of the events in Janie’s life we can come up with a list of things that stopped Janie from being free. events like her marriages and her childhood memories. It was while Janie was a young teen she was always working. Going into her first relationship she was always working, her husband made her work like a mule. In her second marriage, she was not adequate to do much. She could not let her hair down, she could not express her mind, and she could not play checkers with her husband or anyone else. Playing checkers may not look like much, but in the book checkers

Google defines family as “a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.” This very definition is the reasoning on why the family was not completed in her pear tree goal. Even though she had a husband she was not able to have children, nor did she have a mother or father growing up. Janie also did not have a sibling, or cousin to act as that child figure. Others may have said she had completed the goal of the family by her friends acting as family members, but for her to complete the goal she would have had at least one child. Not completing this goal could have helped her complete the goal of