Their Eyes Were Watching God Character Analysis

Throughout a person life, they are constantly changing. It can either be in a positive or negative way. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God, we see the main character Jamie Crawford change throughout her marriage to Jody Sparks. She loved him, but “he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees” (29). In the beginning she is this care free happy woman and is in love. Next, we see her start to become this quiet woman who does whatever her husband says. Lastly Janie gets this freedom she has been looking for. When Janie got married to Logan she was not happy. She only married him because that was what her grandmother wanted. She did what she was supposed to with him, but she was looking for a different type of love. Janie never loved him. When Janie first meets Jody Sparks, there was an instant connection; Every day after that they managed to meet in the scrub oaks across the road and talk about when he would be a big ruler of things with her …show more content…
Once Jody became mayor of the town he begins to change. Joe was not only changing the town, he was changing her too. Janie was not allowed to do certain things. Joe once said to her “Her hair was NOT going to be to show in the store” (55). This illustrate, one of the moments she is not happy. Her illusion of him started too changed. She did not understand why she had to put her hair up. Her hair was a part of her identity. He should understand that she only wanted to be with him and only him. As the years pass we see her become a silent women; “No matter what Jody did, she said nothing. She learned how to talk some and have some” (73). This is the turning point in life. She is not long the carefree happy person that she use to be. Janie had thought Jody was the person that she wanted to be with, but he was not. She is living in this situation that she can no longer get herself out of because she knows that if she leaves she has no place to