Journal Entry 5

Janie has gone through many changes since the begining of the story Their Eyes Were Watching God. For starters, Janie has developed a motivation after the death of her second husband. Her motivation is now to make decisions on her own, without the guiding eye of another. Before she met Tea Cake, Janie had been controlled by her husbands Joe and Logan. She was not able to have a motivation to strike out for herself since both trie to control her, Logan by making her work, and Joe by forcing her to be a little trophy wife with no voice. With the curtain closed on her first two husbands, Janie is able to break free of the bonds set up by those two and is motivated is to follow her own decisions, in other words, choosing a husband that she wants to marry, not one predetermined by someone else, such as her grandmother.

There has also been notable changes in Janie's attitude. In the begining of the story, when Janie was married to both Logan and to Joe, whenever she was faced with a decision, she always needed to ponder it for a little while. This was due to the uncertainty inside herself, for she did not act with in mind to what she wanted, she only wanted to prevent conflict, like not arguing with Joe when he told Janie to go inside the store. Once the husbands where out of the picture, Janie was able to realize what she wanted, and therefore grew more decisive and forward in her speech. Janie also seems to be enjoying herself more for she believes that she is with the one that was meant for her, that one being Tea Cake. With Joe and Logan, she never seemed to laugh when she was with Joe or Logan, but once Tea Cake entered the picture, she always has a hard time keeping a smile off her face.