Janie Metomorphosis

Janie's metamorphosis came about from years of pain, tears, and sorrows. In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, she reveals how Janie is transformed to be externally who she is internally. Janie grows through three marriages, one of which she really finds herself. She also learns, within her years of living, that the love for her grandmother in not present in her heart. She feels that her grandmother, Nanny, is responsible for the life she had to endure. In the book Janie is shown to overcome the obstacles that were placed in her life, whether it was her marriages, her grandmother, or herself.

Janie's first marriage was dreadful. She was married to Logan Killlicks, a man who had been asking Nanny for Janie's hand in marriage long before she let him. Nanny made Janie marry him after she saw her kissing Johnny Taylor. Janie implored to her that she did not want to marry Killicks, but Granny said, "'T'ain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you at have, baby, it's protection." Granny plans for protection is not what Janie wants to live with. Before Janie and Killicks' marriage reach a year, a handsome young man who goes by Joe Starks basically swept her off her feet into his arms. Joe Starks took Janie from Logan Killicks and he was aware of it. Killicks told Janie, before she left, "Ah guess some low-lifted nigger is grinnin' in yo' face an lyin' tuh yuh." Logan knew what was going on, one of those gut feelings.

Joe Starks was spoiling Janie and she was loving every bit of it. Joe and Janie moved to Eatonville and Joe made himself major. That was when Janie began to loose her identity. As Joe became the big man around town Janie became his mule. She wasn't allowed to speak her mind around the people of the town. When she became brave enough to do so, he corrected her in the privacy of their home. After twenty plus years of marriage she was fed up with Joe and it had begun to show. When Janie decided she would rid herself from Joe she learned that he was dieing of something he had no idea about, kidney failure. The town thought that Janie was