Janie's Picture-Perfect Love Life - their eyes were watching god
Janie has always viewed love as a natural element in life. She first seems to idealize marriage and love in Chapter 2, imagining the passionate bond between husband and wife as a natural relationship between bee and flower. The natural state of the world mimics common gender roles in her view. The male bee stumbles upon the female tree where there is a reciprocal act of love. The male and female complement each other and create the perfect union that Janie assumes to be marriage. By looking outwards at what marriage must look like, she develops her own fantastical idea of what love must be. She applies this idea to every relationship she will be in, constantly searching for the perfect partner to complement herself. Furthermore, Janie not only seems to view love and marriage as a natural element, but she also seems to look at her entire life and future life to live as an extension of the natural world. Hurston states, "Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things