Throughout the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie goes through multiple relationships, each one different from the other. Her first husband, Logan, was old and boring, Jody was rich and powerful, and Tea Cake was the love of her life, but it ended terribly. These three men all start out as good men, but the relationships all take a turn, whether it's with Logan who she leaves for Jody, or with Jody turning into a bitter and dying old man, or with Tea's death. Cake after catching rabies. Each man made her feel like a different person. Whether they made her feel like she had to wear the mask and hide her true feelings, or whether they allowed her to be herself while treating her with respect. Logan Killicks was a man Janie didn't marry out of love or lust, she married him because she felt like she had to. Her nanny's final death was seeing her married to a good man who could take care of her when she was long gone. Janie thought maybe she could learn to love the man she married, but she soon realized she was wrong. Although Logan started by saying sweet things to her, she realized that the honeymoon phase ends faster than you think. Logan makes Janie feel ungrateful for what she was given and verbally tears her down. He considers women as objects that men can use as they wish. He has no respect for Janie and treats her like she's a spoiled child. Even though he isn't physically violent, his words hurt just as much. Janie feels stuck with a verbally abusive man she doesn't like, and she wastes her life with him. With each day that passes, she feels more and more the need to get away from him. This bitter old man was as ugly on the inside as he was on the outside, and her desert... middle of paper ... will make him feel like she was equal to them, that she deserved to talk to him. mind and did not control it. The three relationships described throughout the book show how each man had affected the way Janie acted. Whether it makes her feel small and demeaned, or exuberant and free. Although Janie was taught from a young age by her nanny that she would have to rely on men to take care of her, she realizes after Jody's death that she will no longer live like that. She will not let any man decide what she should think, how to dress or act. She was going to say what she thought and feel what she wanted to feel. By the end of the novel, Janie has had the relationship she dreamed of under the pear tree as a child. The story began with Janie alone with a desire for lust and love, and ended with her alone, content with the life she lived..