In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, their eyes looked at God; the author takes Janie through a journey. He lives with his grandmother named Nanny, who currently dates a white family. Janie lives with the 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. At the panhandle she is introduced to a young man named Logan, but as time passes Janie becomes less interested in him. She eventually ends up living with Teacake, the man who loves her the way Janie wants to be loved. Through nature symbolism, Hurston uses a blossoming pear tree to symbolize how Janie hopes to interact with a man, as the bee pollinates the blossoming 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 blossoming pear tree. Hurston uses this symbol to show that it is useful to wait for the ideal love, sometimes experimenting with different types of men gives you the opportunity to achieve the flawless lover. The first way the author uses symbolism is when Janie lies under the pear tree. Hurston says that “since the first little flower opened. He had called her to come and contemplate the mystery. From barren brown stems to glittering leaf shoots; from the buds of the leaves to the snowy virginity of the bloom” (Hurston 10). By considering this tree as a “mystery”, Janie is depicting another view of the tree, what it does. In describing the tree Janie is truly describing herself. The brown and barren stems refer to her arms and the leaf buds to her breasts. As Hurston discovers nature and its development, ... middle of paper ... a cake would please her "It was so crazy to dig worms by lamplight and leave for Lake Sabelia after midnight that she felt like a child breaks the rules. That's what pleased Janie. They took two or three and went home just before dawn. Then she had to sneak Tea Cake out the back gate and that made it look like she was hiding a big secret to the city.” (11) Janie's life was boring with other husbands and now that she has a man she would like, she will try to keep him with her he was young. This is one of the characteristics of Teacake that made Janie fall in love with her. For her he is a loving and childish man who makes her happy unlike the other men she has dealt with to the blossoming pear tree and the ideas he had about marriage.