In Their Eyes Were Watching God Literary Analysis

In their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie states “Love is like the sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.” What Janie means by this statement is that love is something that changes form with every person one meets, and that love is never the same with someone else. What Janie fails to realize is that she is both the sea and the shore and that the love she is looking for is inside herself.

Janie sees her life as a tree that's full of life. In Chapter 2, a teenage Janie lies beneath a pear tree watching the visiting bees. She then watches as a “dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to tiniest
Who in chapter 4 states “ De day you puts yo hand in mine, Ah wouldn't let de sun go down on us single. Ah'm uh man wide principles. You ain't never knowed what it was to be treated lak a lady and ah wants to be de one tuh show yuh....” (Hurston 29). And just like he said as soon as Janie gave him her hand, Joe married Janie and headed to Eatonville, where Joe wanted to me a big Voice. Janie figured that the life Joe promised her sounded better then the one she had before. But what she wasn't ready for was a being with someone who could care less about what she had to say. One day Janie starts to notice that Joe was getting old and Joe noticed it as well. So to keep eyes off him he starts to harass Janie about her age and the way she looked. But Janie's had enough and stands up for herself. In chapter 7 Janie states “ You big-billies round here and put out a lot of brag, but 'tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' 'bout me lookin' old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life.” (Hurtson 79). Janie was getting tired of being insulted about her age and looks in front of everyone in the store, so she attacks Joe insult him about his looks and she also attack his man hood. He then get sick and blames Janie. He stops eat her food thinking that she's poisoning him and he's consoling with quacks to find a cure for his illness. Janie send for a real doctor to find out what wrong with Joe. The doctor checks Joe and come to the conclusion that his kidneys have stopped working and that Joe will soon die. Janie felt sorry for Joe and decides to see him before he dies but Joe was being distant and cold. Janie tried to talk to him but it escalated into and argument, then suddenly Joe