Janie Crawford’s Quest in Their Eyes Were Watching God :: Their Eyes Were Watching God Essays

Janie Crawfords Quest in Their Eyes Were Watching divinity      Janie Crawford, the main character of Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes WereWatching God, strives to hold her own illustration throughout the novel and, in myopinion, she succeeds even though it takes her over thirty years to do it.  Eachone of her husbands has a different ready on her ability to find that voice.         Janie discovers her will to find her voice when she is brio with Logan.Since she did non marry him for love, tensions arise as time moves on and Loganbegins to target her around.  But Janie is young and her will has not yet beenbroken.  She has soak upmly specialization to dictate No and to leave him by running awaywith Joe.  At this point, Janie has found a break down of her voice, which is her notwilling to be handle a slave in her husbands hands.         After Janie marries Joe, I think that she discovers that he is not theperson she thought he was.  He tells her what to do the alike way Logan did, justa little bit more alright by saying that it is not a womans job to do some(prenominal) he does not want her to do.  Throughout her twenty years of life-time withJoe, Janie loses her self-consciousness because she becomes like a little kidbeing told what to do by an adult, Joe.  She does it without even questioningherself, which is why I think that she loses the part of her voice that she hasdiscovered by running away from Logan.  At times, she has enough courage to sayno to Joe, but he always has something to say back that discourages Janie fromcontinuing her argument.  But, in my opinion, Janie does not lose her will tofind herself and it might have even become stronger because the reader can seethat Janie is not happy with the way things are now and that she will belikewant to change them in the future.         Whe n Joe dies and Janie marries Tea Cake, she feels free because eventhough Tea Cake asks for her opinion when he does something and cares about her.Since this is Janies first pairing where she actually loves her husband, shefeels free and discovers many new things in life that she has not noticed before.She becomes more sociable, wants to go places with Tea Cake, enjoys workingwith other people, and likes stroke game.  Although she never shot a riflebefore, she becomes a better shaft that Tea Cake, and he respects her for that,