How Men Changed Janie for the BetterIn Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford, the novel's heroine is the first black female character in African-American fiction to embarking on a journey of self-discovery and achieving independence and self-understanding (Student Novels 303). She enters many marriages with many thoughts but among all of them she has universal expectations for everyone, these expectations are that she will be treated with the utmost respect and if it is not present at the beginning, "love will come” whatever happens. . Although she has three serious relationships, Janie never has any desires satisfied, even with the one she loved the most, Tea Cake. Janie spends much of her life searching for her own happiness, only to realize that she must first make herself happy before she can take advantage of others. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford navigates her life as a spoiled young child with a deeply endearing woman over the course of three marriages and relationships. She meets three men who all have flaws but each gives Janie an important aspect of her character. It takes from each man an idea of ​​itself; of Logan Killicks, self-esteem, of Joe Starks, self-respect, and of Tea Cake, her last husband, love and soul. In her first relationship, with a farmer named Logan Killicks, Janie, although briefly pampered, does not feel loved. and unrecognized as a woman as Killicks attempts to get Janie to work the land and fields with him. Her marriage to Killicks was arranged by Janie's grandmother, who felt that Janie needed to be "married off" to a good man as soon as possible. Her grandmother wants security for her. Janie wants happiness and more or less trusting her grandmother, she takes Killick's hand in marriage. Killick's expectations of Janie were to help him on his farm as well as take care of the many other things he considered feminine duties. Her love was shown through this and so, in essence, for Janie, conforming to Killick's ideals was the only way for her to demonstrate her love and compassion. Both of them were pretty deep in their ways before they first met. Both were very used to getting what they wanted and neither was in their marriage, with Janie getting the worst end of the stick..