Summary Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God taught me that no one should never depend on someone to make them happen or fill in love that they don’t have for themselves. Self-love is the best love and looking for it elsewhere than yourself will only lead to unhappiness. In the story, Janie, who is a dynamic character in the story lusted a husband to fulfill her needs, emotions, love and etc. Nanny, who raised Janie to become a young woman that lives off a man’s land and money, leads Janie living a miserable life. Regardless of what happened with the multiple husbands that she has been with, she still has the tendency to depend on a man to be “happy” or live life like a woman “supposed to”. Personally, when my father passed, I depended on love other people so I can be happy. My experiences of not loving myself connected to Janie thoughts
Janie was impressed by his looks and personality and later Janie and Joe rode off together to Eatonville. Janie had no hesitation to go off with Joe after she called it quits with Logan. Janie’s main focus was to be happy with a handsome man that loved her, spent time with her, owned land and had money as Nanny raised her to do. At this point of the text, I can tell that Janie really wants a man figure in her life. After years passed, Janie and Joe’s relationship grows apart. Janie holds in her opinion about how she really feels until she reached her breaking point with Joe. Janie felt the same type of way because Joe did gave her new opportunities, but Janie knew that if she expressed herself, the town people would judge her and Janie could possibly be left with nothing. I can connect Janie’s feelings and emotions to my own because sometimes I be tempted to say things but I don’t because I feel like it will make a situation worse. For example, if I was to stand up on behalf of my mom, my family would dislike me and think I’m