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There Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie’s Journey
In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie takes a life journey through three marriages and finds her voice and herself. It seems that Janie’s destiny is decided for her despite her idealistic and naïve view of love and marriage. Even though at times it appears “her dream was dead” and she accepts her fate and “became a woman”, Hurston shows us that though suppressed at times Janie never gives up on her dream (25). The symbolic use of the pear tree not only sets the bar high for Janie’s expectation of love, sex and marriage as a partnership like the “bee [sinking] into the sanctum of a bloom” leading to the “ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch” but also a need for personal fulfillment(11). Her journey to find her self begins under the pear tree but she had to travel through her marriage to the respectable, dependable Logan Killick, wind through her marriage......


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