In "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie loses her childish views of love when she marries Logan Killicks. She realizes she cannot force herself to fall in love with him, despite the fact that it seems he is a "perfect husband."
"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman." Janie matures greatly the day she realizes that a marriage does not guarantee that a wife will love a husband. Through her entire life, she had an ideal vision of love as something magical that happened if it was desired. She thought that by…
