Janie Crawford is an african american woman in her early forties. Their Eyes Were Watching God is told in Janie’s perspective and is structured as a long flashback. The story starts off with Janie walking home in her overalls while the townspeople talk about her in envy. Her best friend, Pheoby Watson, meets her on the steps of her back porch with food. The reader is then immersed into Janie’s life story she is telling to Pheoby. Janie did not know her parents so she was raised by her grandmother. Due to her grandmother working with white people, Janie was raised alongside white children for most of her childhood. When she was sixteen her grandmother woke from a nap to find Janie kissing a guy named Johnny Taylor. It was there that her grandmother
