Janie's main motivations are to find true love, and to find understand herself as a woman. Tea Cake made her happy unlike Logan or Jody. They tried to control her, and she desired freedom. We see evidence of her desire to understand herself by the way she desires to bloom like the nature imagery used so frequently by Zora Neale Hurston. Ironically, love and womanhood are also intertwined since Janie realizes she was a woman when her dream of marriage creating love died.
At the beginning of the book, Janie was young and naive, quick to believe what she saw and felt. As she gets older she becomes wiser too, since she is so cautious of Tea Cake upon first meeting him. Now she feels like she has more freedom and control over her own life. I think this causes Janie to feel power through controlling her of course in life. She is reluctant to give up that control again to any man. Tea Cake seems too friendly and young to force her to do things so she enjoys his company.
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