In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie admits that she is lonely and continues to look for new ways to bring adventure and happiness in her life. After Nanny dies, she tries to keep her spirit with her and to live by what Nanny always told her. Janie realizes that marrying does not mean that she loves that person and is coming more distant to Logan. Janie does not do anything for herself while she is married with Logan and makes him do most of the work. Janie is beginning to show how stubborn she can really be until she gets her way. Also, Janie is becoming very independent from others and spontaneous with her decisions, such as her running off with another man to marry him. Janie does not want possessions as much as she wishes to be told poems and rhymes to. Janie hates being told what to do such as having to marry, what clothes she has to wear, and chores that she is forced to do. Janie really begins to become independent from this and fight against whatever force tries to push something onto her.
Logan tries to push more and more chores onto
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He is constantly trying to fill his love with possessions to give to janie instead of caring for her and telling her how much he really loves her. Joe also is very controlling of Janie and even begins to tell her what to wear and how she should put up her hair, “‘Whut make her keep her head tied up lak some ole ‘oman round de store?’” (Hurston 68). Joe begins to force things upon her and separate her from her friends. Joe loves power and change much more than he loves Janie and as a result he tries to control her and create her into something she is not. This is plan that Joe has for Janie is not going to workout overall because he is trying to tell a teenager what to do and like all teenagers they do not like being told what to do. It will be only a short time before she runs away from Jody with someone