Their Eyes Were Watching God Marriage Quotes

In Zora Neal Hurston's, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie has 3 different marriages with Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Virgil “Tea Cake” Woods. Janie figured out who she truly was throughout all 3 marriages, All 3 marriages provided Janie with different perspectives in life. In Janie's first marriage with Logan, she sees the working life and what it’s like to be a wife who works in the fields, Janie is forced to work on the fields with Logan and realizes that it is not for her. In Janie's first marriage with Logan, she sees the working life and what it’s like to be a wife who works in the fields. Logan treats Janie like an object, "She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels." (29). This marriage shows Janie what life is like being a normal housewife who does chores and runs errands but she wants more fulfillment than that. The quote “But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her

"Janie thought of the old days at the store. She had changed her horizon like a great star disappearing behind the horizon and popping up in the east." (page 141) Janie is feeling more free and actually out in the world doing things whereas in her last relationships she was confined to certain spaces. "He had brought her the very feeling she had for years sought after and despaired of ever finding. He had been like the great pearl to Janie. The wish and the fulfillment." (p. 183). Janie sees Tea Cake as a source of fulfillment and happiness in her life. He has given her the feeling of freedom and independence that she has been searching for, and has allowed her to truly be