Until death do you part. Marriage is a strong commitment and relationship between two people sharing the rest of their lives with each other. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford journeys on an emotional roller coaster in her marriages that allow her self-confidence to boost. Janie wishes her relationships between her husbands were as ideal as a relationship between a bee and the blossom. Instead, the marriages help her seek self discovery. Through verbal, emotional, and physical abuse shown by Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake, she finds herself by revealing an optimistic and strong woman side of her. Abuses in these various relationships help Janie develop as a character, becoming more independent, speaks out, and
             Janie's first husband, Logan Killicks, uses verbal abuse towards Janie. Being forced to marry Logan Killicks, Janie's Nanny desired to leave her granddaughter with protection form the outside world before her death. Arranging for Janie's financial security and protection from the outside world, Nanny forces Janie's first relationship in womanhood. Logan verbal abuses her after a short year of marriage together, when he says, "you oughta be able tuh tote it inside" (Hurston, 26). For the first time in her life, Janie is asked to do something outside the roles of womanhood. She feels offended and quickly defends herself by refuting with the housewife roles. Logan also verbally assaults Janie with a comparison to a mule. A mule is unfertile because it is a mix between a horse and a donkey. Mules only have one generation because they are so diverse that they are unable to produce offspring. He claims that Janie is weak, by getting "uh mule all gentled up so even uh woman kin handle 'im" (Hurston, 27). Logan compares Janie to a mule because of her race. She also feels insulted by the way Logan flips the script in being t...