Their Eyes Were Watching God

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there are many lessons on a person's search for identity. Janie's search for identity throughout this book is very visible. It has to do with her search for a name, and freedom for herself. As she goes through life her search takes many turns for the worse and a few for the better, but in the end she finds her true identity. Through …

…her childhood, her marriage to Logan, then Joe, and then finally Tea Cake, Janie has always hoped to have an identity independent of anyone else. Hurston's model for twentieth century women is a very defined model. One which holds freedom, an identity, and an equal level of stature to men, all of which Janie strived to have. Overall Janie's end identity is one that many women in the twentieth century strive to behold. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**