In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston, the author provides several examples of her own search for personal identity. Throughout the story Janie's search for her own identity can be clearly seen as she continues to move from one marriage to another. As time goes by his search takes several bad turns, eventually he ends up finding his true identity. Through her marriages to Logan, Joe and Tea Cake she understands what she should do for herself and how she should live. At the end of the story she is where she finally wants to be and where she truly belongs. All her life Janie lived with her grandmother Tata, Tata and Janie were lucky because they had the privilege of living in the white people's backyard. Ever since Janie was little, she played with white children. Only later did she have to deal with disapproval, was bullied and given many names, so many that everyone started calling her Alphabet, "because so many people had called me different names." "(68). He soon began to piece together what he knew about his abnormal individuality. One day he saw himself in a photograph and noticed that he had a distinctive appearance, that he had dark skin, and said: "Before I saw the photo, Oh I thought. Ah, it was just like the rest” (9). Since that day, Janie has fallen into a sort of downward spiral, distancing her from the path that concerns her own identity. Finally, when she became an adult, the nanny saw her doing something under the pear tree that she thought was unsightly, the nanny hastily arranged a marriage between Janie and a rich local man, Logan Killicks. Janie was against her grandmother's decision. She felt like she was losing her independence as well as her individuality, she was no longer Janie, she would now be... center of the card... men. If women are unhappy in marriage they should devote themselves to what they like. She also points out that twentieth-century women have their lives in their hands and that there isn't a single person out there who has full control over it. They should read to become equal to men because they are not the careless weaklings who should be forced to perform a role of submission to men. Janie had a hard time finding her identity. Throughout her childhood, marriage to Logan, Joe, and finally Tea Cake, Janie always hoped to have an identity different from everyone else. Hurston's model for twentieth-century women is a very distinct model. An identity that holds freedom, identity, and an equal level of stature to men, all things Janie fought to have. Overall, Janie's identity is one that numerous women in the twenty-first century struggle to see.