Their Eyes Were Watching God Analysis

Their Eyes Were Watching God is Zora Neale Hurston’s most most praised enthusiastically work.This story in it's settings shows a tradition and gives a community its roots. The story starts out with Janie coming into Eatonville (after being gone two years) alone and in dirty overalls. The porch sitters all talk trash about why she is back in such a condition. She left when she married Tea Cake and went with him to pick beans. Janie is in her forties when she comes back but the story she will tell Phoeby covers her entire life.Janie tells Phoeby about her life. Especially how she has always longed for love and looked for love in the four most important relationships she has known, a thrice-married, twice-widowed woman who learns the hard way through her own experience. Granddaughter of a slave and daughter of a runaway mother, Janie grows up not realizing her color till she was six when sees a picture of herself among white children. Rather than worry about Janie in her adolescence, her grandmother marries her …show more content…
Joe gets fatter and old age begins setting in on him. He is getting sick but still dogs Janie. The sicker he gets the meaner he gets. When Joe dies, Janie throws Joe a big ass funeral and people from all over come to bury the Eatonville mayor. Janie runs off with Teacake Woods, a young, charming ne’er-do-well. Living with Teacake “on the muck” picking and planting beans in the Everglades Janie finds happiness. Teacake truly loves her and cherishes her company, and Janie and Teacake’s home is the center of a community of lively, happy, hardworking folks. Janie ends up a widow again. In trying to save Janie from a rabid dog during a flood, Teacake is bitten. In his delirium, he threatens Janie’s life, and she must shoot