Analysis Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neal Hurston

Janie struggles to find love in two of her three marriages with her husbands in the novel by Zora Neal Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God, 2006 generated through the culture of her grandmother’s generation. Grandmother spent her life trapped into a society cultivated by years of unhappiness due to her disposition of being an unmarried woman with a child, with hidden resentment of living alone and dying lonesome. The Grandmother who was the sole caregiver for Janie believes that marriage is what Janie needs. She thinks marriage has the answers to Janie’s wellbeing but Janie has her own thoughts and questions her grandmother’s wisdom and wonders, if so, “ Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the

Ah hah uh lavish uh dat. Ah just didn’t never git no chance tuh use none of it. You wouldn’t let me.” “Dat’s right, blame every thing on me. Ah wouldn’t let you show no feelin’! When, Janie dat’s all Ah ever wanted or desired. Now you come blamin’ me (p.85).” Janie did not know how love is supposed to feel… it is the one thing she was in search of. Janie finds that she “ had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them. She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen (p.72).” Furthermore, she hunting and searching for a relationship, possibly a marriage where love can

He fascinates her love for affection and plays with her emotions and connects her childhood and stories and dreams that makes her soul desires to share love, but he is not wealthy. He is a common man that works to earn his daily living. He shows Janie the beauty and simple pleasures of life with fishing, playing cards, and traveling away from her community; her culture. Janie likes what she feels when she is with Tea Cake and accepts marriage for the beauty that Tea Cakes promises to show her. In spite of the challenge, Janie is in love and wants to be with him forever, even at the beginning of her conversations with his doctor and she finds out that Tea Cake is going to die, “You mean he’s liable tuh die, doctah?” “Sho is. But de worst thing is he’s liable tuh suffer somethin’ awful befo’ he goes.” “Doctor, Ah loves him fit tuh kill.” Tell me anything tuh do and Ah’ll do it (p.177).” She is not willing to let him (love) go because he (it) feels right on