In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie is on a quest for personal fulfillment. Of Janie's three marriages, Logan and Joe provide her with a sense of security and status. However, only his union with Teacake turns into true love. Janie's first marriage to Logan Killicks was a marriage arranged by her grandmother Nanny. One day, Nanny caught Janie kissing Johnny Taylor, the neighborhood scum, and Nanny is convinced that Janie has entered her life as a woman and needs to get married. Nanny chooses Logan Killicks for her granddaughter simply because he owns sixty acres of land on the main road. Nanny believes that this would provide Janie with the added security needed to be a black woman during the time period in which the novel takes place. Three months into the marriage, Janie realizes that she still feels no love for Logan, so she decides to visit Nanny. When Janie brings her concerns to her grandmother, Nanny immediately dismisses them and tells Janie that her mind will change with time and she will have to think about Logan's sixty acres of land. Janie is not satisfied with this justification and returns home with still doubts about whether or not marriage will "end the cosmic loneliness of the single." A year into the marriage, Janie decides that she is no longer happy in her marriage, she measures these months in terms of seasons: “So Janie waited for a flowering time, a green time and an orange time. Janie is a sensual woman who grew up in nature and learned about sex and love by sitting under a pear tree and watching bees spread pollen. The land is not enough to satisfy her desires and make her happy in her marriage. The final straw for Janie is when Logan stops talking...... middle of paper ...... e's hair, which was very important to her The difference between Logan and Teacake is simply that she didn't like him and his ownership made no difference. Janie was very in tune with nature and it was nature that taught her about intimacy. If you look back, Teacake won Janie over by using his surroundings, i.e. fishing, lemons for lemonade, and that's how he was able to please her. Throughout the novel, Janie searches for her "bee for her flower" and becomes convinced that Teacake is that bee. In her quest for personal fulfillment, she realizes that she must live for hers in order to find the love she needs and wants. Security and status do not equal love, these unnatural things caused her marriage to Logan and Joe to fail. When Janie meets Teacake it is her natural aura that completes Janie because the novel shows us that nature is her identity.