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

Janie Crawfords Quest in Their Eyes Were ceremony God      Janie Crawford, the main character of Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes WereWatching God, strives to find her own voice throughout the novel and, in myopinion, she succeeds fifty-fifty though it takes her over thirty years to do it.  Each unitary of her husbands has a different effect on her ability to find that voice.         Janie discovers her go away to find her voice when she is living with Logan.Since she did non marry him for love, tensions arise as time moves on and Loganbegins to order 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 course awaywith Joe.  At this point, Janie has found a part of her voice, which is her notwilling to be like a slave in her husbands hands.         later Janie marries Joe, I think that she discovers that he is not theperson she thought he was.  He tells her what to do the same way Logan did, justa diminished bit more delicately by saying that it is not a womans job to dowhatever he does not want her to do.  passim her twenty years of life withJoe, Janie loses her self-consciousness because she change states like a micro 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, exactly 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 argon now and that she will probablywant to change them in the future.         When Joe dies and Janie ma rries tea Cake, she feels free because eventhough tea leaf 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 bracing 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 shot a exitbefore, she becomes a better shooter that Tea Cake, and he respects her for that,