Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching
God, men are physically attracted to Janie's beauty, her hair, and her light
skin. We see this in the very first chapter when Janie returns to
Eatonville:
The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had
grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of long hair swinging to her waist and
unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in
her shirt. They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the
eye.
However, throughout the
novel, many of the men are also unsure and even disappoving of Janie's self-assertion
and her strong-willed behavior. They choose to see her as possession--a beautiful
possession, but a possession nonetheless. Tea Cake is the obvious exception to this
idea.
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