In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, their eyes looked at God; the author guides Janie on a journey. She lives with her grandmother named Nanny, who is currently dating a white family. Janie lives with Nanny because her mother was raped and her father was on the run from the sheriff. As the story progresses, she tries to explore love with different lovers. While begging, she is introduced to a young man named Logan, but as time goes by, Janie becomes less interested in him. In the end, she ends up living with Teacake, the man who loves her the way Janie wants to be loved. Through nature symbolism, Hurston uses a flowering pear tree to symbolize how Janie hopes to interact with a man, as the bee pollinates the flowering tree. Through this, Hurston sends the message that many people in the world are also constantly looking for the perfect lover, but sometimes you don't get what you want at first. Hurston generates a symbol of love by creating a flowering pear tree. Hurston uses this symbol to show that it is beneficial to wait for the ideal love, sometimes meeting different types of men gives you the opportunity to attain the perfect lover. The first way the author uses symbolism is when Janie is lying under the handstand tree. Hurston says that “since the first little bloom opened. It had called her to come and contemplate the mystery. From sterile brown stems to glistening leaf buds; from the buds of leaves to the snowy virginity of bloom” (Hurston 10). Considering this tree a "mystery", Janie depicts another view of the tree, which it does. In describing the tree, Janie is truly describing herself. The brown, sterile stems refer to its arms and the leaf buds to its chest. As Hurston discovers nature and its development, ...... middle of paper ...... a cake would make him happy "It was so crazy to dig worms by the light of a lamp and go for Sabelia Lake after midnight that she felt like a child breaking the rules That's what made Janie like them. They caught two or three and went home just before daylight. smuggling Tea Cake out the back door, which made it seem like it was a big secret she was hiding from the town. (11) Janie's life used to be boring with her other husbands and now. that she has a man who would please her, she will try to keep him This reminds Janie of her first love affair that she had when she was young This is one of the characteristics of Teacake that made her fall. Janie in love. For her, he is a loving and childish man who makes her happy unlike the other men she has been around. Janie was once again able to connect Teacake to the blossoming pear tree and the ideas she had about marriage..