lly discovers what love really is in her relationship with Vergible Woods "Tea Cake." In Kubitschek's article, she portrayed Darwin Turner's portrait of Janie through consensus: "All Janie wants is to love, to be loved, and to share the life of her man. She first must find a man wise enough to let her be whatever kind of woman she wants to be" (17: 109).
             Janie comes to understand the reality of marriage when she marries Logan Killicks, then Joe Starks. Both men attempt to coerce Janie into obeying to them by treating her like a possession. For instance, Killicks works Janie like a mule while Joe objectifies her like a medal around his neck. Janie's resilience is rewarded when she finally meets and marries Tea Cake, who represents the closest impression to her youthful idealism regarding love and marriage.
             Janie's marriage to Logan Killicks was the first stage in her development as a woman. In her marriage to Logan, she found out that the marriage was not what she wanted. Logan was only good for one thing, protection. In Janie's eyes, "The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree" (14). Janie was disgusted by her husband's appearance, "Ah hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck...his belly is too big too, now, and his toe-nails look lak mule foots" (24). Janie wanted love, happiness, comfort and enjoyment in her marriage. She didn't want her first marriage to be like a prison sentence. "Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under the pear tree and think..." (24). She hoped that her forced marriage with Logan would end her loneliness and desire for love.
             Right from the beginning, the loneliness in the marriage shows up when Janie sees that his house is a "lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been&quo...