Audaciter MulierThe heartwarming 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 is faced with dilemmas that she decides to overcome. Janie overcomes these dilemmas and becomes “a delegate of the great association of life” (Hurston 6) through her wisdom, courage, and unwavering desire to find true love. Janie is a wise woman. She only got the chance to share her wisdom at the end of her life. Janie says, “All this has been done to the horizon and back and now all the relatives are settled in my house and living by comparisons” (Hurston 191). She tells her friend this to let her know that people can't just live in one place and expect to understand everything that's going on in the rest of the world. In the same conversation he turns to love as Janie says: "Love is the sea lake. It is a moving thing, but still, it takes its form from the shore that it meets, and it’s different for each shore” (Hurston 191). Janie emphasizes that love is different for each person and that people cannot understand the way other people love. The final piece of wisdom she gives Pheoby is the deepest peace: “It's a known fact, Pheoby, you must go there to know there” (Hurston 192). Janie is trying to emphasize how important it is to have experiences for your 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 whatever the situation. Janie demonstrates her first act of courage by telling her husband, “Ah, I'm as stiff as you. If you can handle chopping and carrying wood, Ah, I think you can... middle of paper ... her first orgasm and she thinks she may have found her true love. She fears for a moment that it will end like her other relationships: “If only Tea Cake could reassure her! » (Hurston 108). She finally accepts love when: “After a long period of passive happiness, she got up and opened the window and let Tea Cake rise to the sky on the wind. That was the start of things” (Hurston 107). Having finally experienced the love she had always dreamed of, she only enjoyed it for a short time. As she buries the love of her life, “Janie bought him a brand new guitar and put it in his hands” (Hurston 189), she leaves with the satisfaction of knowing true love. Janie has been looking for love her whole life and when she finds it, it's the best thing that could happen to her. Living her life fully she is capable of being a delegate to the great association of life.