Use of Clothing in Their Eyes Were Watching God :: Their Eyes Were Watching God Essays

Use of Clothing in Their look Were Watching God In the novel Their Eyes were watching God Zora Neale Hurston portrays a woman named Janies search for love and freedom. Janie, throughout the novel, bounces through three different marriages, with a brief stint at universe a widow in between. Throughout these episodes, Hurston uses Janies clothing as a visual bookmark of where Janie is in her search for true love and how she is be influenced by those around her. Janies first article of clothing is an apron that she wears while married to Logan Killiks as a hard working sixteen year old. Logan, who Janie describes as looking like an ol skullhead in de grave yard, (pg. 13) marries Janie to fulfill the role laid down by Janies grandmother, a mule. Janie goes along with this for nearly a year, until change comes pass down the passageway in the form of Joe Starks. Joe is a citified, stylish man with a hat set at an angle that didnt belong in those parts, and he wants to tak e Janie away. Joes dream is to become big man and pleads Janie to take part in his dreams of the future. He proposes marriage to her, and arranges a rendezvous at the bottom of the road at sunup the next morning. Janie is torn because Jody does not represent sun-up pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke of the far horizon....The memory of Nanny was still strong. (pg. 28) When Janie decides to reach the next morning for, if nothing else, a healthy change, she looks down and sees the apron which has stood for all the things she has had to do for Logan, and flung it on a small bush beside the road. Then she walked on, choose flowers and making a bouquet. (pg. 31) When Janie threw the apron on the bush, it represented a major change in Janies life, and a progression from Logan. Janie is continuing her search for true love, although she knows already that Jody is not the perfect fulfillment of her dream, and how she has been affected by Jody already. Life with Jody was a disappointment from the beginning of their marriage. As soon as they arrived in the sleepy burg of Eatonville, Jody was assay to gain