Illnesses In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, author Zora Neale Hurston evokes emotions in readers with the different illnesses that characters are diagnosed with. The illnesses in the novel are parallel to the criterion given in Foster's chapter,"...And Rarely Just Illness." The novel is a journey of a girl, Janie, who in the search of true love also finds a strong sense of identity and acquires self-knowledge. The two characters that die of an illness are Joe Starks and Tea Cake. Joe Starks is a man with great self-pride and dominating power. He never lets Janie speak for herself and insults her quite often. After twenty years of marriage, Janie becomes fed up by the way Joe treats her. She breaks out in insults toward his manhood and it greatly