Book: A Doll House. Thesis: Work is an emphasized, significant element of A Doll House.

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Janie's Quest for an Improved Self Image Janie loses her confidence early in life and appears to regain it throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie, an African American youth growing up in America in the early 20th century, faces discrimination upon other students' realization that she is different from them. Iin an effort to improve her damaged self-image, Janie finds herself in many relationships, only to find more discrimination. As a result of these …

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…as represented by the quote "Ah done been yuh de horizon and back"(191). Further, this statement and her pulling in the "great fish-net", both represent her pulling together of her self image into the previous state she had been at in her early youth. Of good self image. Rationally, when she is not discriminated against, as she was in her youth, she regains the self image she held before the initial discrimination, and is content.