Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For
Themselves


Janie Crawford evolving selfhood through three marriages. Fair-skinned,
long haired, dreamy as a child, Janie grows up expecting better treatment than
she gets. Living life as one man's mules or another man's adornment. Janie is
one black woman who does not have to live in lost sorrow, bitterness, fear, or
foolish romantic dreams, for Janie has learned "two things everybody's got tuh
do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about
livin' fuh themselves." Janie Crawford is better off at the end of the noval
Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Janie is confused when she was a young woman. The noval explains her life
as a young girl. Her mother left her when she was really young. Janie never
met her. Her grandmother explains that her master raped her, "Den, one night ah
heard de big funs boomin' lak thunder. It kept up all night. And de next
morin' Ah could see......

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