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Essay / All About Love - 576
Janie Crawford is an attractive black woman from Eatonville, Florida, who appears in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She has many romantic encounters throughout the story. She is married off by her nanny, but Janie is not happy. She then leaves him for an ambitious man named Joe Starks. After twenty years of miserable marriage, Joe died. Then Janie leaves Eatonville with a man nicknamed Tea Cake, and they fall madly in love. Love is a vital part of Janie Crawford's life as she embarks on a long journey to find it. In the spring, Janie, a young girl at the time, likes to "spend most of the day under a flowering pear tree in her house." backyard” (10). She loves admiring the marriage between bees and pear blossoms. This represents the kind of unconditional affection Janie craves. She looks everywhere for unfailing love. When Janie meets Tea Cake, for example, her desire for love comes true. He said to her: “Ah, I met a lot of women before I knew you were talking. You are the only woman in the world. Ah, I never mentioned having me...