Once Logan and Janie were married he treats her like the slave he once was. Janie who is half white, is made to work long hours and is treated badly by her husband who seems to be taking out his frustration of being treated in that way by a white man on his mix raced wife. Although Nanny claimed that Janie would start to have feelings for Logan that never seems to happen. Eventually Janie meets a man named Joe Starks, who is referred to as Jodie throughout the novel. Jodie is a smooth talker and convinces Janie that he has deep feelings for her and that if they were to be together he would treat her like a queen. Thinking that Jodie was telling her the truth she ran away from her husband so that she could live the fairytale she had always dreamed of, but eventually Jodie changed into a mix of the two people that …show more content…
He also started making her work in the store, controlling her clothing and hair, and telling her what she could and couldn’t do, just like Logan had done. This is when Janie seems to realize that fairytales are not reality, from the outside looking in a couple like Janie and Jodie seems like they have everything, he was the mayor, they owned a store, they had a beautiful house and they had each other, but in reality Janie was being controlled by the one person she believed would be able to treat her as an equal and make her feel safe. Although Janie knows that something is wrong in her marriage she doesn’t try to leave or say anything because she starts to believe that this is normal. Her grandmother had been abused, her mother had been abused, and she had been abused her whole life and therefore it seemed as though this was just something that every woman would have to go through, so when Jodie started to be physically abusive towards his wife she still didn’t say anything to