Their Eyes Were Watching God In Their Eyes Were Watching God, one of the authors motif was community. Janie talks about the different communities she has lived in. The theme/idea of the community has different styles and ideas. Every community in this story had a variety of forms of thinking and their actions are different. To begin with, the first community where Janie first arrived, was full of envy towards her. “They sat in judgment, seeing the women as she was, made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times.”(Their Eyes Were Watching God, 02). In this community, the people would just take bad things about Janie because of their jealousy. The motif in this story was communities and the way they acted towards Janie.
