Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie s Growth Into a Woman
Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie’s Growth Into a Woman People grow and develop at different rates. The factors that heavily influence a person’s development seem to be heredity and environment. ... Environment seems like the factor that most often and influentially affects a person’s development. ... Janie develops as a woman with the three marriages she has. ... In Their Eyes Were watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie’s marriages to Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake seem like the most crucial elements in her development as a woman. First, throughout the story Hurston uses different men to portray the continuum that men fall into their society. Janie’s marriage to Logan Killicks seems like the first stage in her development as a woman. ... Right from the beginning, the loneliness in the marriage appears when Janie sees that his house feels like a “lonesome place like a stump in the middle of the woods where nobody had ever been” (Hurston 20).