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Their Eyes Were Watching God Character Analysis

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A relationship is a positive or negative connection with another person. In life, everyone will cross paths with another individual that is going to boost them or tear them down piece by piece. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neal Hurston, a woman is involved in three marriages that drastically change her heart and mind. The main character by the name of Janie Mae first marriage came about as a setup from her grandmother. She was married to a much older man named Logan Killicks. Janie despised every second of having to be forced to marry Logan. The relationship they shared was very distant and depressing. There was no love put into the relationship which is one thing Janie longed for. Janie even told her grandmother one morning, “I’d rather be shot with tacks than to turn over in the bed and stir up the air whilst he is in …show more content…

They moved to a town where Joe became the mayor soon after arriving. Janie started to feel like this was the relationship she had been longing for. But, after being married longer and longer to Joe she realized that this wasn’t what she desired at all. The relationship between Joe and Janie became one sided. Joe wanted to control everything she did, every second of the day. Janie started to feel as if she was nothing but merely a puppet controlled by him. The relationship they had formed together succumbed her to a life where she had little importance. But, one day Jody fell ill and on his dying bed, she told him,” All this bowing down, all disobedience under your voice that isn’t what I rushed off down the road to find out about you.” Janie was certainly not content with her lifestyle. This is a point as a reader, we see that even though Janie was wealthy and known, those two things could not buy her happiness. Before long, Janie became acquainted with another man by the name of

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