Third time is a Charm
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Hurston is narrated in the eyes of a black woman named Janie. Janie was brought up in the age when blacks where free, but she was still under a social law inherited from her family which kept her bound. Janie's grandmother and her first two husbands suppress her into a cocoon and it was not until she met her third husband "Tea Cake," that she was able to break free and fly away like a butterfly. Janie's grandmother had lived in the time of slavery, raising her under strict customs, in which men and women were not equal. Under her grandmother's guidance, Janie was required to marry solely based on a custom that is dependent on a man to provide for the woman. At this time, Janie did not intend to marry, but her grandmother wanted to insure Janie's safety and told her, " Tain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it's protection" (Hurston 15). Janie's grandmother would at least pass on, knowing her granddaughter is with a man who could provide for her. Janie's grandmother implicitly says, "Neither can you stand alone by yo'self... Ah got tuh try and do for you befo' mah head is cold"(15), showing an effort to make Janie dependent on a man .
Ah wuz fumblin' round and God opened de door"(159). Joe is a black man, full of ambition and of authoritarian ways, but Janie does not realize this until after he sweeps her off to a new town. After Logan wanted Janie to work like a man, she meets her future second husband, Joe Starks and runs away with him to get married. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels"(76). He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking"(193). Joe had numerous chances as the mayor of a little black community, to let Janie express herself as a woman in politics. Bibliography Works CitedHurston, Zora Neale. Janie was telling her husband, that under the circumstances of possible death, she was able to see the light, which God had furnished her with an Angel of a husband and she was satisfied with him. She's uh woman and her place is in de home" (43). Logan expects her to stop what she is doing to help him, regardless if Janie believes if it is her place or not. Although Joe gave her material comforts, Janie never felt free to do things she enjoyed explaining, ".
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