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Women In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

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Whoever knew how difficult love can be. Love changes like the season. Summer and Spring are your happy moments. Winter and Fall are the bad moments. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston shows how quick and easy love changes overtime. The novel also shows us different types of messages about love and marriage as the men and women play different roles in relationships. In fact, let’s talk about the male role in the relationship. The male role in a relationship must show leadership. In the novel, Joe makes Janie wear a rag over her head to cover her hair. “This business of the heading irked her endlessly but Jody was set on it. Her Hair was not going to show in the store.” (Their Eyes Were Watching God pg.55). Also, the man has to be the decision maker. Joe always made the decisions for Janie and him. Joe says “Thank yuh fun yo compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin bout no speech-makin!” (Their Eyes Were Watching God pg.43). The towns people wanted Janie to make a speech, but Joe makes the decision to speak for her. Men play many different roles in relationships and women have their different roles also. In fact, the number one role of a woman is to always stand by your man in …show more content…

They need each other to maintain a stable relationship. The number one thing to maintaining a good relationship is to never listen to what other people think. The porch sitters loved to talk about Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship. The Porch Sitters says “Tea Cake and Mrs. Mayor Starks! All the men that she could get, and fooling with somebody like Tea Cake!” (Their Eyes Were Watching God pg.110). Also, taking care of each other keeps the relationship steady. When Tea Cake gets sick Janie was right there to care for him. Janie says “Doctor, Ah loves him fit tuh kill him. Tell me anything tuh do and Ah’ll do it.” (Their Eyes Were Watching God pg.177). Having stable relationships leads to a happy

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