Their Eyes Were Watching God Analysis

Janie’s 3 Marriages Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God focuses on a beautiful mulatto woman named Janie Crawford. This piece of literature carves a tale of what was once an awful time to be an African American. It begins with a brief section of what was the end of the story, and the flash-forward quickly ends after the first chapter. Chapter 2 picks up at the story’s true beginning. At the start …

…time and Janie ends up killing him, only to rush to his side and whisper her love for him as he dies. Janie is not emotionally destroyed by her husband’s illness and death. She ends a peaceful, free woman. She and Phoeby remain good friends. Tea Cake lives vividly in Janie’s mind and he will continue to live on in her memories. It is then that Janie realizes that she has found peace.