Audaciter Mulier The moving novel Their Eyes Were Watching God shares with the reader the life story of a young black woman who wants nothing more than to find herself. Throughout the novel Janie encounters dilemmas that she decides to overcome. Janie overcomes these dilemmas and becomes “'a delegate to the great 'association of life'” (Hurston 6) through her wisdom, courage, and an unwavering desire to find true love. Janie is a wise woman. He won't have the chance to share his wisdom until the end of his life. Janie says, “I've been to the horizon and back and now I can make myself at home and live by comparisons” (Hurston 191). She tells her friend this to make her understand that people can't just live in the same place and expect to understand everything that happens in the rest of the world. In the same conversation a turn towards love is taken as Janie says: “Love is a sea lake. It is a touching thing, but for all that, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and is different with each shore” (Hurston 191). Janie highlights the fact that love is different for every person and that people can't understand the way they love others. The last bit of wisdom he gives to Pheoby is the deepest peace: “It's a known fact, Pheoby, you must go there and know it” (Hurston 192). Janie tries to emphasize how important it is to experience things for your own personal growth instead of trying to experience things through other people. In addition to being wise, Janie is a courageous woman who is never afraid no matter the situation. Janie shows her first act of courage by telling her husband, “ah, I'm as stiff as you are sturdy. If you can stand chopping and gathering wood Ah, I guess you can... middle of paper... her first orgasm and she thinks she may have found her true love. For a while she fears it would end like her other relationships: "If only Tea Cake would make it safe!" (Hurston 108). She finally accepts love when: “After a long period of passive happiness, she got up, opened the window and let Tea Cake rise into the sky driven by the wind. That was the beginning of things” (Hurston 107). Having finally experienced the love he had always dreamed of, he enjoyed it for only a short time. As he buries the love of his life, “Janie bought him a brand new guitar and put it in his hands” (Hurston 189), he leaves with the satisfaction of knowing true love. Janie has been searching for love her whole life and when she finds it, it's the best thing that could ever happen to her. By living her life to the fullest she manages to be delegated to the great association of life.