In the novel Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston it becomes immediately clear that although the author’s intent was to write a novel supporting the Harlem Renaissance, she was unable to do so without further enforcing stereotypes, and portraying African American’s in an offensive way. Her novel proves to be further damaging to the already negative view of African Americans from white people, and is used as a novel for white people at that time to justify their feelings of superiority. In source A it is evident that Hurston attempts to benefit the Harlem Renaissance by writing her novel, but fails to do so. This novel is unable to help African Americans break away from their negative stereotypes because Hurston further perpetuates
