Essay Archive - Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
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....
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