Their Eyes Were Watching God Women Analysis

Representation of African Women In Zora Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, we get a look into the life of an African American woman who faces difficulties because of her race and sex. African American women at that time were at the bottom of society. They could not voice their opinion or express their ideas. Their job was to work and do what they are told. They were neither respected nor viewed as valuable to society. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford, despite her skin color and gender, is determined to achieve her goals. She goes on a journey of self-realization and is able to find herself in a few different ways. One way she approached the journey is by challenging the men in her life that are dominating and trying to control her. Another way she tries to find herself is through romance and sexual desire. She wants the freedom to love whoever she wants and be loved by them. She wants the type of love that is real and not controlling. Janie spends many years trying to find the love she desires from the men she marries. She goes through three relationships that test her strengths and ability to love. Lastly she will be able to find herself by finding her space. In most of her relationships she is prevented from exploring
From the beginning of the story till the end we see Janie go through a transformation that brings her to self-awareness. The book “emphasizing the importance of physical space (Partison 19)” and how she was kept from exploring her own. Her self-empowerment is not because of her marriages to different men but how she handled each marriage (Partison 9). She was able to stand up for herself and refused to let the men in her life define her. As Janie went through her journey she had ideas of what she wanted to find however she did not realize till the very end what she had been missing, and that is the experience of life and