As an author of the time in being, was a time many writers wrote about their opinions or ideas into their stories about the society. In the story of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character, Janie, is trying to find herself as one whole person and what she truly wants to be. She is awaking as a women but stumbles over the men that try to silence her. When she was young she married a man named Logan Killicks, who treats her poorly as if she was a mule. Soon she leaves Killicks and runs away with a man named Jody (Joe) Starks. Joe turns out to be an ambitious person but very controlling. When Joe dies after a long twenty year marriage, Janie meets Tea Cake. Tea Cake was a natural man and does whatever he please to
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Janie’s metaphor of her grandmother took the “biggest thing God ever made” and twisted it enough for her not being able to handle things the way she wanted for herself. As time goes by and learning from experience and life lessons, Janie was able to say “been horizon and back”. Showing she has completed her finding of her horizon: “So Ah’m back home agin and Ah’m satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons” (191). She has found herself as a whole and lived to the fullest of her life without any regrets. From learning with experience during her lifetime and meeting her goal. Towards the end of the story, Janie shows that she is accepting her natural self after finishing her long adventure to the horizon: “Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see” (193). Being able to be in her horizon, she is once again one with nature. Found out her true identity with her natural voice. She has completed her life because she found the true meaning in life and is no longer in need of searching …show more content…
After Tea Cake’s death, Janie decides to come home but does not act or dress traditional like a women should but she does not show in any care: “What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on?--Where’s dat blue satin dress she left in?...Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain’t even got no hairs- why she don’t stay in her class?--” (2). Judging what she is wearing and has done with her life previously, she is now confident and knows who she is and what she wants, which is being a natural women. Being completely herself and does not care what the society thinks. Janie begins to talk to her grandmother about how she does not love Killicks like she wants to and does not know how to make it any better. She rather relax and enjoy life but knows that is not the proper way in the society and stays married to him:“Ah want things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah…” (24). After telling her grandmother how she felt and wants to feel, her grandmother encourage her to stay with him and accept the fact that marriage is not always happy. Janie dreams what she wants and says what she wants but with some lack of confidence, she walks away from the idea and continues her
Janie’s metaphor of her grandmother took the “biggest thing God ever made” and twisted it enough for her not being able to handle things the way she wanted for herself. As time goes by and learning from experience and life lessons, Janie was able to say “been horizon and back”. Showing she has completed her finding of her horizon: “So Ah’m back home agin and Ah’m satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons” (191). She has found herself as a whole and lived to the fullest of her life without any regrets. From learning with experience during her lifetime and meeting her goal. Towards the end of the story, Janie shows that she is accepting her natural self after finishing her long adventure to the horizon: “Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see” (193). Being able to be in her horizon, she is once again one with nature. Found out her true identity with her natural voice. She has completed her life because she found the true meaning in life and is no longer in need of searching …show more content…
After Tea Cake’s death, Janie decides to come home but does not act or dress traditional like a women should but she does not show in any care: “What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on?--Where’s dat blue satin dress she left in?...Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain’t even got no hairs- why she don’t stay in her class?--” (2). Judging what she is wearing and has done with her life previously, she is now confident and knows who she is and what she wants, which is being a natural women. Being completely herself and does not care what the society thinks. Janie begins to talk to her grandmother about how she does not love Killicks like she wants to and does not know how to make it any better. She rather relax and enjoy life but knows that is not the proper way in the society and stays married to him:“Ah want things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah…” (24). After telling her grandmother how she felt and wants to feel, her grandmother encourage her to stay with him and accept the fact that marriage is not always happy. Janie dreams what she wants and says what she wants but with some lack of confidence, she walks away from the idea and continues her