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Their Eyes Were Watching God Love Analysis

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In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God love is one of the main themes that is recurrent throughout the novel. Janie struggles a lot since a young age with love and marriage. She goes through many marriages and only finds one man she truly loves and feels herself with. Her first husband Logan Killicks taught her how love is not simply made from marriage; she did not really love her second husband, Joe Starks, because he tended to belittle and isolate her. Both husbands made Janie feel that marriage and love did not correlate and that marriage is mainly for social status. Finally, she meets her last husband Tea Cake who she ended up having to kill. Janie loved Tea Cake because he treated her as an equal and cared for her like no other man

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