Comparing and Contrasting Relationships in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Comparing and Contrasting Relationships in Hurstons Novels, Their eyeball Were Watching God and Seraph on the SuwaneeIn Their Eyes Were Watching God and Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston creates ii protagonists, Janie and Arvay, and depicts their rich relationships with tea leaf surface and Jim, respectively. This brief paper compares these two wowork force and their interaction with their husbands. Contrasting the similarities of these relationships helps underscore deeper themes that Hurston draws from two ostensibly different wowork force.Tea patty and Jim bear substantial similitude to each other. They both carry a rather unsavory personality around their towns, they both woo their new wives aggressively they even suck in care of their women with occasional recourse to illegal improprieties such as hard liquor distilling and gambling (although they tend to spend their profits quite differently). two men reduce to child-like deportment in key moments of affectio n with their wives Tea streak favors having his head in Janies lap, while Jim prefers his head resting on Arvays breast. Perhaps most crucially, both men exhibit communication and behavior that make their wives frantic with jealousy and fear. Jim, in his teasing of Arvay, and Tea Cake in his long absences, especially right after his marriage to Janie inJacksonville, make their respective wives boil over with internal anguish.Janie and Arvay respond to their men in similar ways as well. Both women swing from extremes of distrust and distrust to passionate, all-encompassing love for their husbands. Moreover, both women reconfigure themselves to adjust to the mans world, as when Janie moves to the Everglades with Tea Cake, and when Arvay goes out to sea with Jim on his fishing b... ...her still thoughts and how they pulled her away from her love for Logan and Jody, straight off those same silent thoughts preserve Tea Cake for her in perpetuity. And in Seraph on the Suwanee, Jims d eparture allows Arvay to interpret the chasm between her and her past, and in so doing, realize that her struggles portray a charr destined to be a caregiver. For both Janie and Arvay, inner turmoil is squelch into a role that reconciles both themselves and their relationship with their men. And, perhaps most remarkably, this glory of their partners persists despite indeed, is even enhanced by the fact that both women set their former love interests, those who came before Tea Cake and Jim, as now standing on cracked or even shattered pedestals. Both Janie and Arvay in the end take comfort in their new-found roles and those men who outgo compel them to adopt these roles.