In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist Janie is on a quest for self-realization. Of Janie's three marriages, Logan and Joe give her a sense of security and status. However, only his union with Teacake leads to true love. Janie's first marriage to Logan Killicks was a marriage arranged by her grandmother, the nanny. One day the nanny catches Janie kissing neighborhood riffraff Johnny Taylor, and the nanny becomes convinced that Janie has come into her womanhood and needs to get married. The nanny chooses Logan Killicks for her granddaughter simply because he has sixty acres of land on the main road. Nanny believes this would provide Janie with the added security needed to be a black woman during the time period in which the novel is set. Three months after the wedding, Janie realizes that she still doesn't feel any love for Logan, so she decides to go for it. pay a visit to the nanny. When Janie addresses her concerns to her grandmother, the nanny immediately dismisses them and tells Janie that her mind will change as time goes by and to think about Logan's sixty acres of land. Janie is not satisfied with this justification and returns home still with doubts about whether or not marriage will end the cosmic loneliness of the unmarried. After a year of marriage Janie decides that she is no longer happy in her marriage, she measures these months in terms of seasons: “So Janie was waiting for a flowering time, a green time and an orange time. Janie is a sensual woman who grew up in nature and learned about sex and love by sitting under a pear tree and watching bees shed pollen. The land is not enough to satisfy her desires and make her happy in her marriage. The last straw for Janie is when Logan stops spe...... middle of paper ...... Janie's hair, which was very important to her .The difference between Logan and Teacake is simply that she she didn't love him and his possessions made no difference. Janie was very in tune with nature and nature was what educated her for intimacy, if you look back Teacake won over Janie by using her surroundings for example peach, lemons for lemonade, and that's how she managed to attract her . Throughout the novel, Janie searches for her "bee for her flower" and becomes convinced that Teacake is that bee. In her search for self-fulfillment, Janie realizes that she must live for herself to find the love she needs and desires. Security and status do not equal love: these unnatural things caused the failure of her marriage to Logan and Joe. When Janie meets, Teacake is her natural aura that complements Janie because the novel shows us that nature is her identity.