Love plays an important part in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. First of all Janie spent her days looking for love. She thought love was like an element of springtime. In the story she tells Phoebe about the day she spent under the pear tree and how she watched a bee pollinate a pear tree blossom. After she witnessed that, she found herself kissing a boy named Johnny Taylor. Throughout the story, Janie is searching for this kind of perfect love. Then there came Logan Killicks. Nanny set Janie up to marry Logan Killicks, a middle aged farmer. Janie married Logan because Nanny told her she would be better off if she did and that she would come to love him. She never did fall in love with him and I don’t think he really loved her. He treated …show more content…
Janie thought that she would get the type of love that she had dreamed of for years. She thought she’d have “a bee for her bloom”. Unfortunately, this is not what she had gotten when she married Joe. She found change, and chance, and maybe a little adventure, but still she didn’t find the love she was hoping to have found. What Jody had with Janie was more of a type of lust than a type of love. He was protective of her but wouldn’t allow anyone else to see who she was. He gave Janie material things; money, a home and a higher station in life, but he couldn’t give her the only thing she really only wanted, love. The little bit of love there was eventually died and so did …show more content…
He came into the store to buy cigarettes. Together they moved to the Florida Everglades to live in Tea Cake’s shanty. They spent every day together laughing, fishing and hunting. They talked together and spent time with friends together. They were together; what she had always hoped for in a relationship and what was missing from all the previous relationships. With Tea Cake, she could be herself. He allowed her to be herself because he loved her the way she was and didn’t want to make her change to be something she wasn’t. Tea Cake encouraged Janie to be what she wanted and to follow her dreams and aspirations. Janie finally was able to find the bee to pollinate her pear blossom. She loved him with all her heart. They had the kind of love that she had longed to have her whole life. One day Tea Cake had rescued Janie from a mad dog and was bitten instead. There were no effects for a few months, but when the rabies hit him, it was unbearable. Eventually it got so bad that Tea Cake tried to kill Janie. He didn’t do this out of hate for her but because of the mad dog that was within him. She had desperately wished for things to go back to the way they had used to be, but could not. Eventually she had to shoot and kill Tea Cake. Janie was tried for his murder but was acquitted because everyone knew that it was done out of love. She couldn’t bear his suffering any