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Analysis Of Janie In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora N. Hurston

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As the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora N Hurston, goes on Janie has a lot of changes that influence how she feels about her surroundings. Like how she became more and more “docile” to her soundings. And how she seemed to define love. Her ability to sympathize has also grown along her life. In her first marriage she was very resistive, but as time came along she gave in to her husbands’ power. "Ah’m just as stiff as you is stout. If you can stand not to chop and tote wood Ah reckon you can stand not to git no dinner.” (Hurston 26) Here she does not want to do more than him, wanting to be more equal than doing everything herself. “So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush. The spirit of the marriage left the …show more content…

Mah dice. Ah no need no assistance tuh help me feed mah woman. From now on, you gointuh eat whutever mah money can buy uh and wear de same. When Ah ain’t got nothin’ you don’t git nothin’. Dat’s all right wid me. (Hurston 128) If one of her other husbands were to do this, she probably would have just straight up left them far earlier than she had. But her somewhat irritated response to him running off for a day gambling shows how she has become …show more content…

After Logan, she felt as if she hoped everyone else would not experience the same. “She often spoke to falling seeds and said, Ah hope you fall on soft ground, because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed.” (Hurston 25) Then even with Jody she cannot just blatantly hate or purposely hurt him. She feels that everyone has pains, and you shouldn’t try to force more onto people. "Ah’d ruther be dead than for Jody tuh think Ah’d hurt him, she sobbed to Pheoby. It ain’t always been too pleasant, ‘cause you know how Joe worships de works of his own hands, but God in heben knows Ah wouldn’t do one thing tuh hurt nobody. It’s too underhand and mean." (Hurston

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