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 …
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…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.