"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Janie Crawford

Their Eyes Were Watching God, was panned by the public, and later shelved on bookcases to gather dust. By passing over the story of Janie Crawford, readers lost a remarkable novel, not about the injustices whites had committed on the blacks, but the many paths a human life can take on the journey through life. Essentially, Their Eyes Were Watching God is a novel that follows the character of Janie Crawford as she evolves through …

…longer haunting her, Janie sees that it has helped mold her as a person, the strong one that she is. In the end, she has discovered who she truly is as "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 (184)." Janie finds a "mule's" strength through Logan, an individual "voice" through Jody, and the fruit of "love" through Tea Cake.