Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

The Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston was a little hard for me to understand exactly the placement of the story and how it started out, but after I kept reading I understood it a little better. Janie Crawford left her home searching for love. After a forty year span and four different men all of different backgrounds it seems that she found true love with the poorest man. This goes to show that money is not everything. Money does not solve every problem and make someone happy. True happiness comes from within. Janie comes back to her hometown dirty and in overalls and her neighbors wonder what happened to Janie. Janie tells her story to her friend Pheoby Watson. Her first look for love was from her grandmother, then from her first husband Logan, who was an old potato farmer. Although as her grandma thought, he offered security he did not give her the love that she so desired. Next was a marriage to Joe Starks, a mayor that gave her everything. It was like he could give her everything but love. He could handle all the problems with the city and money and power and business, but the love and respect she simply asked for he could not provide. She was married to him for 20 years. Janie’s last and final marriage was to a bean picker named Tea Cup. Janie gave up everything that she had to go to the Everglades and live with him. She finally found happiness until a hurricane took over the land and Tea Cup was one of the unfortunate ones that did not survive. Janie was devastated. She could not stay in the Everglades because of all of the memories that she had. That is why she went back to her home town with nothing. Or did she have something after all? I think so. She had the memories that could never be taken from her that she was once very happy and loved.