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Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Use of Clothing

by Zora Neale Hurston

In the novel Their Eyes were watching God Zora Neale Hurston portrays a woman
named Janie's search for love and freedom. Janie, throughout the novel, bounces
through three different marriages, with a brief stint at being a widow in
between. Throughout these episodes, Hurston uses Janie`s clothing as a visual
bookmark of where Janie is in her search for true love and how she is being
influenced by those around her.

Janie's first article of clothing is an apron that she wears while married to
Logan Killiks as a hard working sixteen year old. Logan, who Janie describes as
looking like "an `ol skullhead in de grave yard," (pg. 13) marries Janie to
fulfill the role laid down by Janie's grandmother, a mule. Janie goes along with
this for nearly a year, until change comes walking down the road in the form of
Joe Starks. Joe is a "citified, stylish man with a hat set at an angle that
didn't belong in those parts,"......

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