Summary Of Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

The plot of Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is very interesting because it gave you insight on how marriage worked in the 1930’s. The book also allows you a look into the life of people during the Harlem Renaissance. During this time period, many African Americans were migrating south and looking for a better life, than in the north where there was still a high level of segregation between blacks and whites. The plot continues to keep you compelled throughout the book because of the many different plot twists from the difference in love interests from the truth behind a man and woman’s relationship back in the 19th century. Throughout the book the author Hurston, shows her outlook on men and women and how they are different

She has always longed for a life of true love and they believe that she will find her happiness in a man, a family, or marriage. Throughout the story she goes through three different relationships with men, each one giving her a new outlook on life as well as some hardships she has to face with each. Janie is an African American but in the story unlike most women during this time period wears her hair down because she feels different than them. She dresses in overalls rather than dresses which makes her character come off with a sense of independence. Janie is a very smart woman but she is also sarcastic, which gets her into conflict with men in her life because they are used to women who listen to everything they say without back talk. Janie talks in a sort of sophisticated manner rather than having a hard accent she has a more subtle accent. “ Finally out of Nanny’s talk and her own conjectures she made some sort of comfort for herself.” In this quote the way she talks, gives off the vibe that she is better than everyone in the book. Janie is a character that brings the book forward with her change in attitude when she loses a husband, her grandma, and her

For the character Janie her dream was finding true love while the men her life were all about the money and becoming successful. The time period of the book places it at the time of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a time period when African Americans were migrating down south in search of jobs and money. The character Janie, while on her way down south had three different relationships with men. Each of the men gave Janie a different outlook on her definition of true love. Throughout the book Janie had always had her life mapped out for her by her grandmother. Before her Nanny died, she set her up with a rich man named Logan Killicks. Janie didn’t love Logan like he loved her, though she stayed with him for the happiness of her grandmother. She listened to her when she said that you will learn to love him, that dream never came to Janie. (textual evidence) “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman”. Throughout the story, Janie changed the way she acted during each relationship in search of true love within one of the men. With Logan Killicks, she was a smart and respectful young lady with a smart mouth, but knew when to stop because Logan would beat her when she stepped out of line. Before he died, she gained this new feeling freedom when she met this new man named Joe “Jody” Starks and he gave her