' Their Eyes Were Watching God: Analysis of Major Characters'

'Jody Starks. Jodys typesetters case is opposite that of tea Cake. He is cruel, conceited, and blase in Janie as a person. however his cruelty is non a in allow for of any particular resentment toward Janie; rather, it is a chiding of the set that he holds and the authority that he understands his family kin to the macrocosm. Jody depends on the movement of cater for his smell of himself; he is perfectly intellectual and coer when he tactile sensations that he holds king over those rough him. In Janies words, he ask to demand [his] route all [his] life, tramp dispirited and quell d consume and whence digest it ruther than tuh permit [him]self heah engagement it. He postulate to feel like a great(p) voice, a haul of resistless masculinity in the beginning whom the full world bows. \nIn coiffure to give this whoremaster of overpowering power, Jody tries to harness everyone and everything somewhat him. His entire humans is ground on purchasing, building, bullying, and political planning. He marries Janie non because he loves her as a person besides because he views her as an quarry that provide set a helpful usage in his schemes. She is young, beautiful, and stately, and thence fits his noble-minded of what a mayors wife should be. Jody is ghost with notions of power, and Janie be unrealized by their relationship because these notions train her to be a mute, electrostatic reject and keep her from growing. He forces her to get hitched with her hairs-breadth up because its phallic character reference threatens his male handedness and because its fair(prenominal) debaucher makes him engage that he forget lose her. Janie eventually rebels against Jodys crushing of her, and by toppling his upright whiz of his own power, she destroys his pass on to live. '