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

Janie Crawfords Quest in Their Eyes Were Watching God      Janie Crawford, the main character of Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes WereWatching God, strives to go through her own voice 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 varied effect on her ability to find that voice.         Janie discovers her allow for to find her voice when she is living with Logan.Since she did not marry him for love, tensions arise as time moves on and Loganbegins to frame her around.  But Janie is young and her will has not yet beenbroken.  She has enough strength to say No and to leave him by running out-of-doorwith Joe.  At this point, Janie has plunge a part of her voice, which is her notwilling to be like a slave in her husbands hands.         After Janie marries Joe, I think that she discovers that he i s not thesomebody she thought he was.  He tells her what to do the same way Logan did, justa exact bit more delicately by saying that it is not a womans job to dowhatever he does not want her to do.  Throughout her twenty years of life 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 crediblywant to change them in the future.         When Joe dies and Janie marries Tea Ca ke, she feels free because eventhough Tea Cake asks for her opinion when he does something and cares about her.Since this is Janies first marriage 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 shooting game.  Although she never wisecrack a riflebefore, she becomes a better shooter that Tea Cake, and he respects her for that,