Love and Friendship in Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Things They Carried

He had the good qualities of Jody, but did not view her as a trophy, instead treating her with respect and pure admiration. Although Tea Cake is much better than her last two husbands, he still has a flaw that appears to be a common issue in this book: he is abusive. Tea Cake even admits that he doesn’t abuse Janie because she did something wrong, but he did it to “show them Turners who is boss.” (Hurston 148). Janie has experienced all kinds of abuse by the time she married Tea Cake, and we see a difference in her demeanor and in the handling of his abuse.

She marries him because he starts seeing her secretly at her current home with Logan Killicks. He convinces her to run away with him to Eatonville where they establish a town. Their relationship starts very loving and close, but as time passes their love fades away slowly. Jody is a man who needs power and rule to satisfy him; therefore, he seems to be a bit bossy. He was in charge of the town, the store and more and “They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the own bowed to him.” (Their Eyes Were Watching God 50). At the end of their marriage Jody gets sick and dies. Janie is left a widow for six months until she meets Tea Cake, a store

From the beginning, Janie’s happiness is abundantly clear in her relationship with Tea Cake. Although she is now a woman in her forties, Janie acts very youthful and unrestricted with him. She wears “new dresses and...comb[s] her hair a different way nearly every day (111)”. Tea Cake allows for Janie to be herself, in stark contrast to misogynistic Joe who constrained her individuality daily. Janie reports that “Tea Cake love[s] me in blue, so Ah wears it (113)”.

Janie’s love life was not always the (Perfect Love Story) in all three of her marriages something was always missing. Zora Neale Hurston,Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie,Tea Cake,Killicks,Jody Starks In this novel Janie marries 3 different men and she faced many difficulties in each of her marriages she married Logan Killicks first then Janie’s first love Jody starks and her second love Tea Cake.In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston uses symbolism to illustrate difficulties through Janie’s marriages.

Tea Cake loved Janie so much that he would rather himself get hurt than her, which is something Janie had never experienced: true love. Without Tea Cake’s role in Janie’s life she would have never experienced true love and actual happiness. Tea Cake is a mysterious man from the

Janie struggles with her marriages with Logan Killicks and Joe Starks throughout the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, but finds a good man and husband in Tea Cake. Logan goes to marry Janie because Janie’s grandmother forces her to marry him because Nanny wants her to have a good marriage and thinks Logan can give it to her. While Joe comes in and shows Janie he has authority and is loving, but later tries to control her and what she does. Tea Cake on the other hand show Janie love and is willing to let Janie be herself and do the things she likes to do. Janie doesn’t love Logan or Joe because they try to change and control her, while Tea Cake loves her for who she really is.

In marriage, a man should possess certain qualities in order to be a good husband, and he must provide both financial, and personal support. In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, characters Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake all have some of these qualities in their marriages. Janie’s first husband Logan does not provide support for her and has very poor qualities in their marriage, in fact, he requires Janie to do unnecessary work on his farm, therefore, he is not a good husband. Furthermore, in her next marriage, she is overshadowed by Joe Starks, a selfish entrepreneur that provides her with financial support, but does not support her needs and desires. Nevertheless, Janie obtains a third husband, Tea Cake, who has exceptional

The film and novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, shows the three kinds of romantic relationships Janie endures throughout her life. The cinematographers clearly had the goal of the film concluding with a happy ending. To do this, they eliminated many of Tea Cake flaws in the relationship. Many details are lost in films based off novels because the time is limited to explain the story given. The author in of the novel can express their emotions

“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” In Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford struggles to find true love. Throughout the novel, she marries and estranges from three different husbands. The first husband, Logan Killicks, seems to be Janie's first true love, but he turns out to be weak and lazy. Janie’s second “love” Joe- Jody- Starks beats Janie both physically and mentally, and Jody overrules her with his obsessive need for power. Lastly, she marries and moves away with Tea Cake after Jody dies. Tea Cake was Janie's final and only genuine love. Throughout the novel, the author validates the critical lens of

Janie endures her final marriage with Vergible Woods, better known as Tea Cake. Tea Cake is twelve years younger than Janie. Despite the age difference, Janie finds an interest in Tea Cake. However, initially, Janie is afraid of being disappointed for a third time which causes her to be hesitant in building a relationship with Tea Cake. Eventually, Janie overcomes her fear of being hurt and decides to marry Tea Cake. Although Tea Cake ultimately becomes the love of Janie’s life, soon into the marriage, Janie begins to realize Tea Cake’s flaws. Tea Cake has a

Janie didn’t marry Tea cake until after the death of her second husband, Joe but again chose to marry him on her own account and how she loved him. Even though Janie loved Tea Cake she learned not everyone else may have thought they were equitable for one another and this forced her to have to choose between what everyone else wanted or what she wanted. “‘But, Janie, Tea Cake, whilst he ain’t no jail-bird, he ain’t got uh dime tuh cry. Ain’t you skeered he’s jes after yo’ money—him bein’ younger than you,’” (112). Even Janie’s best friend, the one speaking, Pheoby questions Janie’s relationship with Tea Cake. Just as the situation with leaving Killicks, Janie had to grow as a person and decide whether to do what she wanted or what others wanted for her. Janie also learned sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reason. “The pistol and the rifle rang out almost together. The pistol just enough after the rifle to seem its echo,” (184). This is when Janie and Tea Cake shot at one another. Tea Cake shot aiming to kill Janie due to being ill and not thinking straight and Janie shot with intentions of killing Tea Cake because she feared for her life and so Tea Cake would no longer have to suffer from his illness, which was Rabies. Janie loved Tea Cake but learned that even though she loved him she had to think of what was best for him when it came to the least amount

In the novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford had a host of marriages that didn’t go how she planned. She was married a total of three times, two of her husband's happen to pass away. Which makes me think to myself that Janie was probably getting fed up with the pain and suffering made her feel that love was not the things for her due to all the problems that occurred in the past relationships. Real love doesn’t come easy nor it comes and go. Real love is solid and stays with you forever.

As time went on Jannie began to realize that Tea Cake was extremely different, that he meant what he said and truly loved her. He even thought that she was one of the greatest people there was. Tea Cake was a huge improvement to Joe Starks. When Janie looked at Tea Cake she “felt a self-crushing love” (pg. 128), that she had never felt with Joe or with Logan. Tea Cake was the one who helped Janie to transform into a happier and hardworking woman, who was very loyal to her new husband. She learned to put trust into him and she learned what marriage was supposed to be like. Tea Cake showed Janie that, as the wife, she wasn’t supposed to be treated as if she were a slave, but she should be treated as if she were royalty. Tea Cake was able to convert her outlook on life from fairly negative to very positive, and she loved Tea Cake more than any of her former

Janie’s life with Tea Cake ended when he fell ill and passed away. Janie finally found what she’d been longing for her whole life, true love. Tea Cake showed her how to love, and how to be loved in

In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, emotions such as love and hatred are showcased through the multiple marriages of Janie Crawford and her three husbands, impacting her life with bitterness, torture and ultimately peace due to Janie’s naive ideals of lust and desire. Nanny arranges Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks, a responsible and financially stable man, after she catches Janie kissing the handsome Johnny Taylor. Although Nanny’s intentions are for the well-being of her only granddaughter, Janie finds herself losing interest in Killicks as the marriage turns bitter. Expecting love to save her lifeless marriage with Killicks is a false ideal leading Janie to leave the relationship and fall into the arms of Jody Starks. As jealousy captures the suave and idyllic Starks, he turns into a demanding monster, dictating the miniscule movements of Janie, torturing her mind and soul. Although Janie’s innocent desire for passion revives during her marriage with Tea Cake, several misunderstandings lead to a devastating end but eventually brings peace to her heart. Hoping her granddaughter will find happiness, Nanny arranges the marriage of Janie to Logan Killicks, a respected and monetarily secure man. After a year, Janie realizes her marriage to Killicks is a loveless union causing bitter disputes.