People, places, and actions can all impact a person as an individual. Everything said, seen and heard may be considered unimportant but can influence what we believe and what we learn. Janie learned that being in love meant and entitled her to what she believed in the beginning. As he grew and matured with wisdom, he learned the truth. What love gives one the right to, how her husband should behave and how she should be able to identify her dreams and not just see her husband's. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie's relationship with Jody and Tea Cake impacts Janie as an individual through their control over her, through what they meant to her, and through how they treat her. Janie first sees Jody when she is in the backyard of the house she shared with Logan. When she realizes that she cannot achieve love just because she married someone for financial protection like her nanny wanted, she tries to run away from a person who promises her a life of success and importance. She first notices how he was a "fashionably dressed man with his hat cocked at an angle who didn't belong around here" (27). The type of clothes she wore and the promise of having a successful future by being important and having a say in a new place attracted Janie to Jody. When Janie met Tea Cake she was single and looking for love rather than protection. After realizing that her nanny was wrong and that she didn't want her future to be just sitting around and not working. He wasn't someone who was seen as being able to protect her financially, but rather she was attracted to his looks. He thought, “He seemed too young for her. They must have been in their mid-twenties and here she is in her mid-forties” (100). This was her first relationship with a younger but… middle of paper guy… with financially stable people who would give her the protection she needed. However, through relationships, she has realized that these dreams and ideas about what entitles one to love are different when it comes to the person, their wisdom, and how they interpret life. For Janie, her life with Jody had the impact that being with a guy who could buy her everything and anything might not be her dream, but rather a person who accepted her for who she was and saw her as a individual rather than an object to be possessed. That's why the peace he was able to receive came from memories with Tea Cake. When it came to Jody, she didn't need memories or anything because she was done with him even before his death came. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie's relationships with Tea Cake and Jody were affected by her acceptance of her treatment and how she responds to their deaths..