Character Flaws in Literature

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Everyone has at least has a flaw in their life. Nothing is perfect or else everything would move in peace loving harmony. If everything was perfect we wouldn't have to compete with one another. It is these flaws we have that make us unique individuals. Each of the main characters at least had a characteristic that stopped them from being with each other. It was both physical and mental problems that caused their dilemmas. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie had a beautiful vision of love when she was young. Janie's grandmother prevented her from being with boys because she was very protective. The grandmother was so protective of her that she changed her view of love. The grandmother's view of love was a man that could provide a house, some food, and have money. The woman's job was to stand by her man and do chores around the house. She made Janie marry a very older man because he had a house and money. Janie resisted this man's physical attraction to her because she was not in love with him. Eventually he got frustrated with her not taking a liking to him and made her to hard chores around the house. She grew short with him and left him with to be with another man. Janie started a new lifestyle with Joe Starks. He swept her off her feet and made Janie's beautiful vision of love come back. As their marriage progressed it slowly began to deteriorate. Jody was running a business and it slowly began to take up all of his time. He kept buying all these little trinkets for Janie and she wasn't interested in them. She would have rather spent more time with him than receive all these little gifts. Jody was just buying her love and that's not what Janie was interested in. Their marriage got pretty bad and they ended up sleeping in different rooms but Jody's pride kept them from getting a divorce. Jody eventually died from a an illness and Janie was left with everything he had. She was ready to move on and met another man at the store she owned. Tea Cake was his name and he had to work to win her love. Tea Cake was younger than Janie but that didn't stop him.

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