Janie

Janie is the main character in the book "The Eyes Were Watching God", and the story revolves around her and her desire to make her dreams come true. Among those dreams is the hope to find true love and be respected but many factors play against Janie and her dreams. The fact that she is African America and lives in the 1920's a time period where women were no more than trophies that men showcased and marriages were arranged so that the people getting married would have some sort of financial or social boost.

Janie does follow this stereotype in the beginning of her life thanks to the persuasion of her grandmother and married Logan Killicks. Janie did not love Logan but she assumed she would in time. After her impatience ran out, Janie ran off with Joe Starks who help fund an all African American community. Joe was very sexist and treated Janie like someone who is just a tool for him. For 20 years Janie was married to Joe and was subject to his discrimination and lack of love or interest for her. After an incident where Joe tried to make fun of her because of little mistake he made, she snapped at him. Shortly after Janie found out that Joe was going to die because of a kidney disease and decided to speak her mind to him before he died.

I believe that Janie is a woman who is blinded by her dreams, and while she may be determined her faith in thing that she hopes come true is what her weakness is. Janie still believes that she will find true love, shown by the way she acts head-over-heals for Tea Cake, whom she meets months after Joe's death. The fact that she hid her feeling of frustration and anger from the way that Joe ignored her shows that she hoped that something might change for the better, the assumption that she would fall in love with Logan after she married him are all examples of her blidspot.