Their Eyes Were Watching God- equality

Both Their Eyes Were Watching God and A Room with a View describe how their female protagonists, Janie and Lucy respectively, search for a relationship, which the female sex is equal to the male sex. Each has to encounter men who are passionless and treat them only as possessions. For Lucy, this man is her fiancé, Cecil, who treats her as a beautiful painting he owes; therefore, he wants to manipulate and mold her into a more valuable piece of art. Logan and Jody are the Cecil for Janie. These two men disregard Janie’s feelings and desires because they views women’s feelings to be nonsense. Despite of these two men, Janie finds a relationship in which her partner, Tea Cake, shows her that she is more than just another beautiful object to admire but not to love. He also respects her as an equal being as George is toward Lucy. These two female characters have to surpass conventional thoughts of what a woman ought to be and ought not to be before they are content with and true to themselves. This change has led them to a relationship, which the male and female are complements to one another.