Five

Janie's motivation is that she want to take part in her life more. She realizes she is letting time fly when she spends time with Tea Cake. She wants to have done more and been more. Since she is free from two husbands and wants to be free from her grandmother's intentions for her, she wants to experience life herself. Not only does she want to to take the initiative to experience, but she wants to experience what she felt she was held back from.

Janie changes when she lets go of a dependence of other's opinions. Early in the book, Janie takes her grandmother's advise quickly with little hesitation to think about what she really wants. Then she takes other's advise with caution and heavily conciders her own thoughts and desires. Though she is cautious to believe and follow what others say, she is open to learn more about herself and others by taking risks that her husbands would have guided her away from. She is, now, her own self and thinks of herself first. (In a non-selfish way- a good thing)