Unhappiness was a common theme in both books. Janie is quite unhappy throughout the story. She is miserable with her life in her first marriage. All she wants to do is escape it and leave. Janie has a hard time with her love life. Her first marriage did not work out, and her second marriage was to a controlling man.
She has no real family left and it is hard for her to fit in because most of the people she meets are mean and either do not like her, or are envious. She ends up working in her second Joe’s store, which causes her even more unhappiness, and finally she leaves. At one point, a man named Tea Cakes walks into her life and changes her perspective. All this time she had been gloomy and had failing relationships and now she found someone that made her truly happy. However, Tea cake turns out to be quite a womanizer so Janie falls back into unhappiness.
In the story Night, Elie was somewhat content with his life in the beginning. However, there are so many instances where he witnesses horrible things that cause him to be less and less happy. The first one that I noticed was when the Hungarian police evacuated his village of Sighet. This was when he realized that the threats of evacuation were actually true. Throughout the book, he not only loses his faith in god, but he loses his happiness and falls into a depressed state. Both books reflect on the lives of characters (true or made up) that exhibit unhappiness and pain in their own ways, and the theme really connects the books.
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