Perceptions of Marriage in Their Eyes Were Watching God

For generations marriage has been accepted as a bond between two people. However, the ideals involved in marriage differ by the individuals involved. The book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston clearly demonstrates these differences. In the book a girl by the name Janie is raised by her grandmother and then married off by her grandmother. Originally all Janie knows of marriage and love is what her grandmother tells her. As Janie …

…learned marriage is what you make of it. Love can only be found when your beliefs coincide with another's ideas. Even today people find out the hard way that they are not compatible and that everyone's perception of marriage is different. This can be seen everyday among couples who separate and among others whose marriages last the rest of their lives. Life is a learning process and we must take the bad with the good.