Janie's Three Husbands In Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their eyes were watching god:
What makes a man a good husband? Is it wealth,and power? In some eyes yes, but only the people that don’t want to have to do anything. In Janie’s case she just wants someone who wants to love her just as she wants to love them. And out of her three husbands Logan and Joe both may have wealth and the will to be able to provide for Janie, but they didn’t have the qualities that Janie was looking for in a man.. She’s looking for someone to treat her as her equal, and who also posses the qualities of a hardworking man that would do anything and provide whatever he can for her. The man who bares these qualities in the novel Their eyes Were Watching God would be Tea Cake, her third husband. It took many years of Janie’s …show more content…
She envisioned a man with all the best qualities that she believed a man should have. Logan however, did not have these qualities. He was an old, gross, and dirty man that didn’t treat Janie like a man should treat a woman. Logan would often make Janie work out in the barn, cutting up potato seeds while he goes off to retrieve a mule. “Looka heah, LilBit, help me out some. Cut up dese seed taters fuh me. Ah got tuh go step off a piece”(Hurston 26). This was the straw that broke the camel’s back in their relationship, and the true reason that Janie left Logan for Jody Starks. But this was not the only reason that she left him, Jody had promised her the life of a woman that would never have to lift her hands to do anything. And just before she finally did leave Logan, they had an argument over whether or not the relationship was good and set in stone on both sides. Janie ended up winning this fight by pointing out that he was old and fat, but logan didn’t go without a fight,pointing out that Janie was basically white by her nature,“Considerin’ youse born in a carriage ‘thout no top on it, and yo’ mama and you bein’ raised in de white folks back-yard”(Hurston 30). That was it, she couldn’t take anymore, so she left and met up with Jody Starks to restart her life as a young married
What makes a man a good husband? Is it wealth,and power? In some eyes yes, but only the people that don’t want to have to do anything. In Janie’s case she just wants someone who wants to love her just as she wants to love them. And out of her three husbands Logan and Joe both may have wealth and the will to be able to provide for Janie, but they didn’t have the qualities that Janie was looking for in a man.. She’s looking for someone to treat her as her equal, and who also posses the qualities of a hardworking man that would do anything and provide whatever he can for her. The man who bares these qualities in the novel Their eyes Were Watching God would be Tea Cake, her third husband. It took many years of Janie’s …show more content…
She envisioned a man with all the best qualities that she believed a man should have. Logan however, did not have these qualities. He was an old, gross, and dirty man that didn’t treat Janie like a man should treat a woman. Logan would often make Janie work out in the barn, cutting up potato seeds while he goes off to retrieve a mule. “Looka heah, LilBit, help me out some. Cut up dese seed taters fuh me. Ah got tuh go step off a piece”(Hurston 26). This was the straw that broke the camel’s back in their relationship, and the true reason that Janie left Logan for Jody Starks. But this was not the only reason that she left him, Jody had promised her the life of a woman that would never have to lift her hands to do anything. And just before she finally did leave Logan, they had an argument over whether or not the relationship was good and set in stone on both sides. Janie ended up winning this fight by pointing out that he was old and fat, but logan didn’t go without a fight,pointing out that Janie was basically white by her nature,“Considerin’ youse born in a carriage ‘thout no top on it, and yo’ mama and you bein’ raised in de white folks back-yard”(Hurston 30). That was it, she couldn’t take anymore, so she left and met up with Jody Starks to restart her life as a young married