Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie had three marriages. «The three marriages and the three communities in which Janie moves represent increasingly broader areas of experience and opportunities for the expression of personal choices. The nanny, Janie's grandmother, was in fact a slave and had given birth to a son for her master. (Cathy Falk.Vol.61.). A young woman and her relationships with three boys. Throughout his life he experiences love, hurt and pain in three relationships. Logan, her first husband, was much older than her. Jody dies at the end of their relationship. Tea Cake was the love of her life and made her feel like she was more than just a housewife until he was bitten by a wild dog. When Zora Hurston wrote this novel, she wanted to explain how a young woman searches for her own identity. This young woman will experience three relationships that will lead her to the end of the journey towards a secure sense of independence. She wanted to find her voice while in a relationship, but she also witnessed hate, pain, and love along the way. When Logan Killicks arrived, she witnessed hatred because he never physically or emotionally connected to her. Jody Starks, to what he presumed, as a ticket to freedom. What he didn't know was that the relationship involved control and pain. When she finally met Tea Cake she was in love, but in the end she had to choose life over love. In Their Eyes They Looked at God Logan Killicks was Janie's first husband. He frequented Janie's house and asked her grandmother for her hand in marriage. Janie would ask, “Nanny, who… who asked you about me?” "Brother Logan Killicks. He's a good man too." "No, nanny, no ma'am! Is that why you hang out here? It looks like an old skull in de gra... middle of paper... Crabtree, Claire. "The Confluence of Folklore, Feminism, and Black Self-Determination in "I their eyes were watching God." "The Southern Literary Journal 17.2 (Spring 1985): 54-66 in Contemporary Literary Criticism Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 61. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literary Resources from Gale Web January 14, 2014 . Harris, Trudier "Celebrating bigamy and other lawless behavior: Hurston, reputation, and the problems inherent in labeling. Janie a Feminist." Hurston's Approaches to Teaching Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works. Ed. John Lowe. New York: MLA, 2009. 67-80. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 285. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary resources from Gale Web. 2014.