Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale

Jefrey Zavala

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Love can be perceived as the feeling one feels under the sweetness of a blossoming pear tree, but thorough unexpected path it can lead to the pollen of that desired feeling to deceased.Many individuals are forced into a relationship that results in such individual to seek for love.In the novel "Their eyes were watching god by Zora Neale Hurston", protagonist Janie Crawford is put up with several relationships where love is unattained and the ideals of marriage seem unnatural to Janie.Janie being under Nanny's containment is forced into her first marriage with Logan which soon decays that cause a devastation for her to seek for love.Through her relationships, desires,love, and self-identity awakes.

Janie's visionary scene under the blossoming pear tree aroused her femininity awakening where she seeks to find the utopia where she evolves around love.Her insularity feeling of love sets her adventurous mislead of marriages.The pear tree in the beginning of the novel provides Janie the imaginative feeling of love and path to follow, but that love decays after being forced to marry Logan Hillicks, a wealthy old man, whom Janie has no love for. Janie being a beautiful woman sees no beauty in an older man like Logan that soon evidently caused Janie to have a distant relationship with. But Janie is assured by Nanny that her love for Logan will unfold, so Janie decides to marry Logan.Nanny having gone through the rough life of a slave black woman and experience the mistress of women, acknowledge the role of women in society, where"the nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as ah can see"(31), she also wants Janie's sexual desires to dispatch since according to Nanny most woman are used as sexual objects by their masters and wants respect and security for Janie, something that Logan can provide.Nanny's ideals of such relationship began with her superfluous slave life, where she was raped and taken advantage of and has seen such things happen to her daughter leafy,Janie's mother.She wants what's right for Janie despite Janie's disapproval.During her first relationship with Logan,the pear tree desecrates and Janie's path for love seems limitless.After being sexually awaken under the pear tree and stating "so this was marriage"(28)that feeling soon questions her relationship with Logan, where she realized that marriage is not as pleasant as the feeling under the pear tree.Through her relationship, Janie is a victimized by Nanny's rule of love, where Janie expects to find love.

Not being able to find the promised love she begins to reflect upon the pear tree, where her love for Logan is undivulged and looks upon the pear tree for answers,"She was back and forth to the pear tree continuously wondering and thinking(38).Her relationship with Logan had caused Janie to realize how love cannot be obtained by marriage,"Janie knew now that marriage did not make love, Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman(42).Janie's visit to Nanny seemed odd to Nanny, which she speculates Logan attempt to

hit Janie, but soon Nanny realized that Janie suffers from love and not feeling the desired to love Logan,"But Nanny, Ah wants to want him sometimes, Ah don’t' want him to do all the wanting(40).Their relationship is more of an Experimental relationship where Janie want to experience love but can't do so with Logan, which provokes her departure to seek for the "perfect' man, where she seeks to regain the feeling of the blossoming pear tree,"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think, ah...(41).But such desires are chartered after being spoiled for so long, she was forced to work by Logan.Such distant relationship had caused Janie to feel unwanted since Logan was more occupied with his business."Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband stopped talking in rhymes to her(43).Logan over time became more detached to Janie and became more of a controlling husband, where he wants Janie to be more of a working woman.Janie knew that she cannot be under no man control and especially worship such figure.Janie acknowledging the idea that her relationship with Logan will not last since Janie desires love and Logan wants Janie to work, Janie's dream of love is crushed since she will become enslave by the responsibilities of a married woman.
On the day Logan leaves the house to buy a second mule for Janie to work, Janie sees a stylish dressed man named Joe Starks who doesn't represent the blossoming pear tree but more of a envision of how loving and a perfect life can be if she was married to Joe,"Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon(46).The idea of the horizon allows Janie to regained confidence within herself and see that life is full of possibilities.Janie's love for Jody allows Janie to understand that Jody represents change and chance, where she expects to find the true love she desires.