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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie’s Journey
In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie takes a life journey through three marriages and finds her voice and herself. It seems that Janie’s destiny is decided for her despite her idealistic and naïve view of love and marriage. Even though at times it appears “her dream was dead” and she accepts her fate and “became a woman”, Hurston shows us that though suppressed at times Janie never gives up on her dream (25). The symbolic use of the pear tree not only sets the bar high for Janie’s expectation of love, sex and marriage as a partnership like the “bee [sinking] into the sanctum of a bloom” leading to the “ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch” but also a need for personal fulfillment(11). Her journey to find her self begins under the pear tree but she had to travel through her marriage to the respectable, dependable Logan Killick, wind through her marriage to the showy Joe “Jody” Starks and end with her union and ultimately with the love of her life Vergile “Tea Cake” Woods.
Janie’s revelation under the pear tree foreshadows the journey that is about to begin. When Nanny catches Janie kissing Johnny Taylor she decides that it is time to marry her off. At first Janie resists because she does feel the way she thinks she should for Logan Killick. She is not impressed with his acres of land or his ability to provide for her nor is she swayed by Nanny’s dream for things to be different for her, for her to not be “de mule uh de world” (14). Nanny promises her that the feelings will come so she waits. After several months she talks to Nanny who tells her she should accept and appreciate what her husband is offering because he will not always be so good to her. It appears that she has done just that but really we see she has not when she refuses to help him with work outside. Janie has settled for being...
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