Janie as Feminist an Alpha Female
Their Eyes Were Watching God is written by Zora Neale Hurston and published in 1937 at a period where females were not recognized for their hard work. Hurston 's novel features the first strong, independent black woman in a novel to search for her identity and happiness. It tells about a woman who acquires the power to speak, who finds her voice and so learns to tell stories and create metaphors. Although Janie is a victim again and again of male repression, Janie stands up for herself at several points throughout the novel. The story starts out with Janie, a middle-aged African American Woman, returning to her hometown in Eatonville, Florida. Her surprise visits gets the town talking. " What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can 't she find no dress to put on?-Where 's dat blue satin dress she left here in?-Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her?-What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin ' wid her hair swingin ' down her back lak some young gal?-Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid?-Thought she was going to marry?-Where he left her?-What he done wid all her money?-Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain 't even got no hairs-why she don 't stay in her class?-"(Hurston 2). Janie did …show more content…
These successive relationships provide the novel 's structure, for each new lover brings about both a change in setting and s new stage in the story of Janie 's life. Though each relationship is different from the others, there are two in which Janie is involved, her short-lived romance with Johnny Taylor and her marriage to Tea Cake, and two in which she is restricted and unhappy, her marriages to Logan Killicks and Joe
Their Eyes Were Watching God is written by Zora Neale Hurston and published in 1937 at a period where females were not recognized for their hard work. Hurston 's novel features the first strong, independent black woman in a novel to search for her identity and happiness. It tells about a woman who acquires the power to speak, who finds her voice and so learns to tell stories and create metaphors. Although Janie is a victim again and again of male repression, Janie stands up for herself at several points throughout the novel. The story starts out with Janie, a middle-aged African American Woman, returning to her hometown in Eatonville, Florida. Her surprise visits gets the town talking. " What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can 't she find no dress to put on?-Where 's dat blue satin dress she left here in?-Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her?-What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin ' wid her hair swingin ' down her back lak some young gal?-Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid?-Thought she was going to marry?-Where he left her?-What he done wid all her money?-Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain 't even got no hairs-why she don 't stay in her class?-"(Hurston 2). Janie did …show more content…
These successive relationships provide the novel 's structure, for each new lover brings about both a change in setting and s new stage in the story of Janie 's life. Though each relationship is different from the others, there are two in which Janie is involved, her short-lived romance with Johnny Taylor and her marriage to Tea Cake, and two in which she is restricted and unhappy, her marriages to Logan Killicks and Joe