Essay Archive - Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Epic Search
In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
shows how the lives of American women changed in the early 20th century.
Zora Neale Hurston creates a character in her own likeness in her
masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. By presenting Janie's search for
identity, from her childbirth with Nanny to the death of Tea Cake, Hurston
shows what a free southern black women might have experienced in the early
decades of the century. To the racial ties that would affec....
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