Their eyes were watching God :Zora Neale Hurston; Mary Helen Washington

Their Eyes Were Watching God
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie battles to find Individualism within herself. Janie, all her life, had been pushed around and told what to do and how to live her life. She searched and searched high and low to find a peace that makes her whole and makes her feel like a complete person. To make her feel like she is in fact an individual and that she's not like everyone else around her. During the time of 'Their Eyes', the correct way to treat women was to show them who was in charge and who was inferior. Men were looked to as the superior being, the…