Zora Neale Hurston was a very prestigious and effective writer who wrote a controversial novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie, who is a dynamic character, faces many hardships throughout her life . Janie's nanny always told Janie who she should be with. Janie was never truly happy because she felt she was forced to abandon her desires and dreams. Janie's first two marriages were failures. Throughout the novel, Janie claims that her dreams have been killed. Janie is saying that the men who were involved in a part of her life mistreated and underestimated her actions. The death of her dreams affects Janie's perception of men and her feelings about the future. Logan and Jody were the men who gave her such a negative attitude towards marriage. Once Tea Cake arrived, Janie realized that there are men out there who will appreciate her for who she is. Over the course of the novel, Janie comes into contact with many obstacles that alter her perspective on men and life in general. Janie's nanny is always giving Janie advice about life and men. The nanny is the one who convinced and persuaded Janie to marry Logan Killicks. The nanny believed that Logan was a hard-working man who would respect Janie and take care of her. Janie was very skeptical about marrying Logan, but she ended up doing it. Janie is a beautiful, young woman married to an old, ugly man. The paucity of material about Logan in the novel is appropriate given the desperation and emptiness he symbolizes for Janie. Logan doesn't show much affection towards Janie. He has difficulty channeling his anger and automatically assumes that the ideal of a marriage is for men to have superiority and a desire to dominate the woman, in other words, Janie. Logan senses that Janie is... in the center of a sheet of paper... explaining what it is to her and how she wants to live. So ultimately it's where it wants to be. Janie glimpses the horizon she has sought all her life. Call his soul to come in and see. Where once his soul was separate from her, it is now part of her. Janie has grown over the course of the novel into a strong, independent woman. Although Janie cared about Tea Cake, she needed to kill him to keep him from suffering. Janie shows the reader that she too lived her life fully as she wanted and is now able to die with no regrets in life. Although Janie recognized that most men were obsessed with power and thrived on complete control, she discovered a man who helped push her toward her goals. Tea Cake helped Janie a lot, but he made sure she didn't rely on him because from the moment they met, he knew how strong of a woman Janie was..