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Theme Of Marriage In Sing Unburied Sing And Their Eyes Were Watching God

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In their eyes were watching god just before marrying Logan Janie claims that “husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant.”(21) however Janie never fell in love with Logan and her false reality of what these titles meant fell apart. This theme stays consistent throughout Both Novels Sing Unburied Sing and Their Eyes Were Watching God which both display that titles such as parent and spouse don’t always determine who is right for the role.
Janie's relationships with her first two husbands respectively show that love does not come out of marriage. Before Janie's first marriage, she was naive to what marriage was and how it would work. She expected to love her husband just because he was her husband. Janie even …show more content…

Although Janie found herself in the position of logans wife she did not feel love for him and that means that he was not the right person to fill the role of her husband. Janie has now realized how little the title of husband really means and she now understands that marriage doesn't always mean love if it isn't with the right person. So when Joe Starks came to Janie she left Logan in search of the right person to fill the role of her husband. She initially thought that Joe was right for the role but eventually realized that she never really loved Joe. Janie says that “Gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush. The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit”. (71) Once again Janie is in a marriage in which there is no love or joy between the Husband and Wife. A marriage is supposed to be filled with joy and have mutual love but the way that joe silences Janie makes her feel nothing for him. They may have the titles of husband and wife but they do not support each other and they have no love for each other showing that they are not

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