It's pretty easy as a reader to group Janie's first two husbands Logan and Joe, but in reality they were very different, and grouping them together gives Logan in particular a bad rap. Let me start by clarifying, I have no sympathy for Logan, it's not Janie's fault she doesn't love him and she is obliged to leave. However, he was not abusive or manipulative as Jody came to be. He was merely a simple farmer, who proved incompatible with his much younger and much more adventurous wife. So while Janie was justified in leaving him, he didn't exactly do much wrong. In the case of Jody, he did a lot of things that were legitimately abusive, so ironically Janie leaves Logan for a worse man. Jody is a minsogynst who believes Janie's only purpose should be to sit still and look pretty. He doesn't really even allow her to work inside her own store. When he claims upon first meeting her, that working the farm is no place for a woman, he didn't mean it in a mi...