Their Eyes Were Watching Janie Identity Analysis

Finding Janie's True Identity
In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching , Janie, a young mulatto, experiences how to find her independence, freedom, and her true identity. Through her journey, she learned the true aspect of being a woman of her own through her three marriages. There was a point in her life where she was spiritually trapped. She had lost herself through the misery of her second marriage, which she thought was the bee to her bloom. As she went through a chaotic journey in her life, she learned how to strive and reach to save herself from falling off a cliff. Through the use of imagery, simile, and symbolism, Hurston conveys the theme true identity starts from within.
Hurston utilizes imagery to demonstrate how nature is being used toward her life. One day, she just sits underneath …show more content…
While she is there, she is "soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her"(11). Janie, now, feels like a new chapter opened up in her life. She sinks into a whole new planet where she dream of love and where the atmosphere is right and set for her. Hurston gives a visual of nature to reveal the new feelings that is starting to arise and now she is on the search to find the love to fulfill her. Janie sees nature as beauty and satisfaction to her soul. Without nature, she would not be able to express herself freely as she wish. As she pass through two marriages, she has not found the love she dreamed of. She finally meets Tea Cake and she quickly falls into his arms because Janie is able to express