Janie

It's ironic that Janie has been in relationships with older men who treat her bad and they disrespect her but it is the younger man that treats her right and withe respect. It is also ironic how Janie isn't willing to stand up to the older men that she was in a relationship with and she stays quiet but with the younger man, she automatically assumes that he his going to use her and she doesn't want to be in a relationship with him at the start. I think that once her opinions changed about her grandmother, so did her opinion on men because even though they older men that she has been in a relationship with treat her wrong, they were still somewhat wealthy and they could provide but with Tea Cake, he is rather poor and can't provide for her as much but he treats her better. Once Janie realized that it is not really all about the material things and it is truly about her happiness is when she started hating her grandmother and started to find real love instead of security.