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Analysis Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960) is a widely known African American author. She grew up in the town of Eatonville, Florida, where her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is set. The novel features the life of Janie Mae Crawford, and her story is told as a flashback as she was describing it to her friend, Phoebe. There are many characters that impact her life, and they all seem to have a stereotypical ideal of how Janie should live, based on the fact that she is a woman in the 1900s. However, Janie does not want to conform to the standards where she is placed, and she often goes against the ‘norm’. This is shown distinctively throughout her different marriages. In today’s world, it is more common to see millenial women break out from the rest of
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