Janie

Janie is a woman in the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. She was married to a man named Logan, but due to Logan's want for her to work she decided to run away with a man named Joe. Joe got her to run a way with him, by promising her a happy life with him. He told her that he had money saved from working earlier in his life. Then after many visits he gave her an ultimatum to either run away with him or stay with Logan. She decided to run away with him, for Janie believed that true love was not to be found with Logan but with Joe. After many years of living with Joe Janie had become an established woman. Her life was not as happy as it seemed though. Joe had her working in his shop, and he constantly attacked her with verbal onslaughts until one day Janie counterattacked. She fought back while many of Joe's friends where present, and there fore shattered his social standing due to his inability to control his wife. After this incident Joe became very ill and continued his life until the day that Janie decided to talk to him about how he constantly abused her verbally. Though Janie was unable to do what she wanted for while she talked Joe managed to shoo her off, and died immediately after. After Joe's death Janie was finally free, and decided to find true love with a man who came to her one day, and whose name was Vergible Woods.
To be continued...