Characters in Their Eyes Were Watching God

However, when love does not come after three months, Janie begins to doubt. "Janie could see Jody watching her out of the corner of his eye while he joked roughly with Mrs. Robbins. He wanted to be friendly with her again. His big, big laugh was as much for her as for the baiting. He was longing for peace but on his own terms"(Ch.6). After the argument between Joe and Janie, Joe wants to make up with Janie but is too proud to say it right off. Instead, he beats around the bush at it with long glances and his big, overwhelming laugh. He wants love, but without making any sacrifices himself. It takes two people to make a relationship work, if one person is not cooperating. Not only, did Janie find her love in many different ways she felt that her grandmother and her husband Joe never let her have any freedom. Nanny and Janie hold two very different views of what freedom means; their two views intrinsically oppose each other and cannot be reconciled, which is why Nanny felt that she was freeing Janie, and Janie felt that Nanny had put a leash around her neck. Janie felt as if Nanny was trying to take her horizon away from her. Janie second husband Joe Starks took her freedom. For example [Joe]: "Shet de door behind yuh, Janie. Lum is too busy wid de hawses. After more shouting of advice and orders and useless comments, the town escorted the carcass off. No, the carcass moved off with the town, and left Janie standing in the doorway"(Ch.6). Janie is stuck in the house while she really wants to go out with the townsfolk and watch the mule's fun funeral. He also forces Janie to keep her luxurious hair bound up while working in the store. He is secretly jealous of other men touching or even looking at it. But, he do not confess to Janie how he feel, he just forces her to wear a head-rag. As the townfolk say "Whut make her [Janie] keep her head tied up lak some ole 'oman round de store? Nobody couldn't git me tuh tie no rag on mah head if Ah had hair lak dat"(Ch.