Their Eyes Were Watching God Chap. 3-5
“You don’t need mah help out dere, Logan. Youse in yo’ place and Ah’m in mine.” “You ain’t got no particular place. It’s wherever Ah need yuh. Git uh move on yuh, and dat quick.”
In Chapter 4, Janie and Logan’s marrige seems to be falling apart. Logan keeps on complaining that Janie is spoiled because she doesn’t help him with the outside labor with the mules. Just the phrase of Logan telling Janie that her place is where ever he needs her kind of goes back to the expectations of women at the time. Logan seems to be more controlling and somewhat trying to enforce what society expects of women. However, it seems that Logan himself is going out of bounds with the traditional gender roles. As the man, he is supposed to be doing all of the work and providing for the household, yet he needs Janie’s help. If he really fufilled his societal role, he would be doing all of the work.
Janie seems to be leaning towards Jody in her interests as her marrige with Logan is failing. Jody seems to be a much younger and more charming of a man than old and disgusting Logan. I think its this independence, youth, and ambition that causes Janie to go for Jody and leave Logan.
