“Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and they remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly." This quoted from Zora Neal Hurston's novel Their Eyes Are Watching God explains that women easily let go of unimportant things, but if they are important, women will make sure to get them. This can be seen in the novel with Janie. At first, her grandmother pushes her to marry Logan, then runs away from her marriage to marry Jody, but ultimately finds true love with Tea Cake. At the end of the novel Janie has forgotten what she didn't want to remember and remembered everything she didn't want to forget and with that she has built a "rich" life. At the beginning of the novel, Nanny, who is Janie's grandmother, wants the best for Janie. The nanny is old and dying and wants to see Janie married and cared for before she dies. He then tells Janie to marry Logan, a rich farmer who can take care of her. “That's what makes me clueless. You mean no harm. You don't even know where the damage is. Ah, I'm old now. Ah, I cannot always guide your feet from evil and danger. Ah wants to see you married at once” (Hurston 13). With the nanny's death, Janie is forced to marry Logan Stalks. From the beginning of their marriage Janie felt unhappy. Logan wasn't romantic and treated her like a pack mule. However, one day Janie is working on the farm and sees a handsome, well-dressed boy walking along the road. They start talking. After a couple of weeks their conversations turn to flirting. Fed up with her unhappy marriage, Janie decides to go against her grandmother's wishes and run away with Jody. Jody opens up a new world for Janie, so the… middle of paper… whenever she is given it, even if she is unhappy. But at the end of the novel, it becomes apparent that Janie is her own person and truly cares about herself and her happiness. She achieves this by ending her relationship with Logan, confronting Jody, and finding love and freedom in her relationship with Tea Cake. She gave up on Logan who had money, a house and a stable job; and she gave up on Jody who put her on a pedestal, she had money and status in a community. She gave up all her power and financial stability for a poor man like Tea Cakes simply because he provided her with true love, respect, and freedom. At the end of the book Janie is seen as a confident, independent person who doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She lived her life the way she chose because, as Janie said before, she's already been "to the horizon and back"..”