Janie has so many dreams, she, herself, doesn't even know what they are; this shows through all her different journeys in life with her three very different husbands, and her relationship with them. She can never be happy without fulfilling her imaginary dream. Her dream of perfect love. Janie never brings up the mistakes she's made with her former husbands; never even thinks about them let alone mention them, she just keeps on living, waiting for "happiness".

Jody starts getting old and is extremely self-conscious about it. Janie knows that he is getting old and it makes her sick to look at him. However, Janie observes that she herself is not getting old and still looks quites young. With his new self-consciousness, Jody starts to become more controlling than ever constantly yelling at Janie. One day, in the store, Jody yells at Janie for the littlest thing and Janie lashes out at him in front of a customer subsequently telling him how old and fat he looks. Jody responds by striking her in the face after an urging from the customer. Jody and Janie now sleep in separate rooms in the house and Jody will no longer eat Janie's cooking, due to a rumor in the town that she is trying to poison him. At the same time Jody's health is deteriorating and a doctor tells him that he is close to death . When he is on his death bed, Janie just yells at him about all the horrible turmoils he has put her through, but Jody doesn't want to hear it. Janie isn't sad or remorseful when Jody dies.

When Jody becomes mayor, Janie's whole life changes. When Jody came to Eatonville his expectations are very high, yet when he sees the town he is greatly disappoint with the conditions that its in. therefore, he organizes everything and builds a store, a post office, and other important buildings. Due to there things, the people elect him mayor of the town making him some what of a noble. At first, Janie didn't think that this new position would change her life. However, Jody started to be more controlling of her and where she went, how she dressed, and he tried to control her actions and emotions. Yet, Janie didn't like this form of control, that was one of the reasons why she left Logan; she now had to run the store and was not allowed to fraternize with the everyday people. She wasn't allowed to attend certain events of go certain places. Such as the time when Jody holds the funeral for the mule, she was not allowed to attend since a lady of her status was too good for it. Also, she had to wear a bonnet to cover her long hair, so that the men don't look at he. Overall, Jody becomes much more controlling now that he is mayor and Janie doesn't necessarily approve of this drastic change; Jody went from being this free-spirited guy to now this controlling monster ta ht she had already lived with before, he had changed a great deal.