One of the most prevalent themes in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" is Jamie's undivided search for love and independence. Jamie has a goal throughout the novel to find spiritual enlightenment and reach "the horizon". To achieve this goal she went through several relationships and chimerical thoughts, through her grandmother nanny and her three husbands. However, her third husband, Tea Cake, plays a less substantial role in the novel, but a significant role in Jamie's quest to achieve his dream of love, independence, and security within himself. Early in the book, Hurston foreshadows the issue of Jamie's search. for love. She lay on her back under the pear tree, immersed in the high song of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting of the breeze and the inaudible voice of it all reaching her. It was a bee full of dust sinking into the sanctuary of a flower; the thousand brother glasses arch to meet the embrace of love and the ecstatic thrill of the tree from the root to the smallest branch and creamy in every flower and foaming with joy. So this was the wedding! (p. 11). Hurston foreshadows the central question of his novel; Jamie's quest to reach his horizon. The unification of the bee and the flower is the fulfillment and reflection of the love Jamie desires through his give-and-take love relationships throughout the novel. In Jamie's search for love she meets her first husband Logan, in which she is deceived by illusion. of love from his nanny. "Because you told me I had to love him, and, and I don't. Maybe if someone told me how, I could do it" (p. 23). Jamie realizes that the nanny described love as money and respect, but Janie wanted both emotional and physical love that Logan couldn't provide. Jamie begins meeting a man named Joe Starks who represents an essential alteration in her loveless marriage. From then on, every day they managed to meet in the oak trees across the road and talk about when he would be a great ruler of things and she would reap the benefits. Janie held back for a long time because she didn't represent the dawn, pollen and flowering trees, but spoke of the distant horizon” (p. 29). Janie's eyes, Joe, may be the horizon she's looking for.