How Men Changed Janie for the BetterIn Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford, the novel's heroine is the first black female character in African-American fiction to embark on a journey of self-discovery and achieving independence and self-understanding (Student Novels 303). She goes into several marriages with many thoughts but from all of them she has universal expectations for each, those expectations are that she will be treated with the utmost respect and if she is not there in the beginning, "love will come" no matter what. . Although she has three of her serious relationships, Janie never manages to satisfy her desires, not even with the one she loved the most, Tea Cake. Janie spends much of her life searching for her happiness only to eventually discover that she must first make herself happy before she can enjoy others. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford navigates life from a young, spoiled child to a woman of deep affection over the course of three marriages and relationships. She experiences three men who are all flawed, but each gives Janie an important aspect of character. She takes from every man the sense of herself; from Logan Killicks, self-esteem, from Joe Starks, self-respect, and from Tea Cake, her late husband, love and soul. In her first relationship, with a farmer named Logan Killicks, Janie, though briefly pampered, feels unloved. and not recognized as a woman while Killicks attempts to force Janie to work the land and fields with him. Her marriage to Killicks was arranged by Janie's grandmother, who felt that Janie needed to be "married" to a good man as soon as possible. Her grandmother wants security for her. Janie wants happiness and trusting her grandmother, more or less, takes Killick's hand in marriage. Killick's expectations from Janie were to help on his farm and to take care of many other things that he felt were women's duties. Her love was demonstrated through this and so, in essence, for Janie, conforming to Killick's ideals was the only way she could demonstrate her love and compassion. Both were pretty set in their ways before their first meeting. Both were very used to getting what they wanted and neither was in their marriage, with Janie having the worst end of the situation.