Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston This is the story of Janie, who has returned to the town where she spent most of her adult life after leaving it to find herself and her own true freedom and happiness. Janie is telling her life story to her friend Pheoby, who she instructs to go and tell it to everyone she had passed on her way into town who asked her where she had been, thinking she was so high and mighty. Janie recounts how she was pushed into marriage by her grandmother who wanted Janie to have all of the freedoms she never did. But Janie is told to marry a man she didn't, and couldn't, love until one day she meets a man she finds extremely handsome and charismatic. She leaves her husband and follows this man (Joe Stark) to a new place where he becomes an influential person, raising Janie's life up to great financial heights compared to the others in the community. However, her life with Joe proves unsatisfying because Joe wants to keep her apart fro...