`THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD` NOVEL of Zora Neale Hurston

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston 's book Their Eyes Were Watching God has a lot of tension in it as the main character Janie travels from town to town and from marriage to marriage (or relationship to relationship . The following essay will explore how Janie 's character grows and how she becomes a woman of the world

Although there is a lot of violence toward women in the novel (such as Janie 's husband 's emotional and mental

abuse ) Hurston focuses on how Janie becomes a woman . Janie 's character grows up with the image of her mother and her grandmother being strong women and how they want for her to find love (at least her grandmother wishes for her to do so as she states , De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see (14 ) which conveys the idea of her grandmother wishing for Janie to be more than the mule in the world

Janie 's life begins with the image of a tree in blossom in spring and this image is juxtaposed with Janie 's own blossoming body as seen by her mother through the kitchen window . This image is very sexual in nature and it speaks to Janie 's mother of how Janie will get into trouble in the world because of her figure . Thus , Janie is married off into a marriage which doesn 't last long . After Janie 's first marriage she gets married again but this time in an abusive relationship . Janie learns from this relationship , she learns about the human as a sexual creature and how lust is mistaken for passion and how marriages end up broken because of it as Hurston writes of Janie and Jody 's relationship , Not that he wanted anybody else , but jus too many women would be glad to be in her place . He ought to box her jaws ! But he didn 't feel like fighting today , so he made an attack upon her position backhand (59 Thus , Janie learns about power and how certain men crave it and are corrupted by it (such as Jody being corrupted by his position as mayor and thinking he is above the law . Jody felt that a reasonable wife of a mayor should listen to authority . Any decent woman should know that her husband is always in the right (a common sentiment during this patriarchal time period

Finally Jody dies and a new man named Tea Cake comes into Janie 's life It is in this period , this type of third act that Janie is truly her own woman , or begins to be . She finally finds a man whom loves her and whom she loves back . She has fun with him and progresses from that small `alphabet ' child , and two husbands later to finally find a place of her own with a man in the Everglades . Although Janie finally finds love , it seems that Hurston...