Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

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In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston explores the effects of race and genders on developing one’s identity. Janie was able to ignore other opinions of her and becomes the woman she wants to be. She is a beautiful black woman that was looking for love in her three different marriages. Janie’s life is affected for better and for worse by the intersection of racism and sexism.
Throughout this novel, Janie’s life is affected by racism and her being a woman. Janie was having a hard time being a black women and looking for love in her marriages. As Hurston has noted, she knew know that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman (30). Janie decided to become a woman after her first …show more content…

Well, it is complicated being a black woman, especially if you’re married. Hurston agrees that women reconstruct their pasts by selectively forgetting and remembering different aspects of their lives. In this way, women see themselves living outside of their dreams. Also that women have the ability to accurately look back at their past (1). Women have the ability to remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget in their pasts. That is what make their dreams so true, because they live outside of their dreams. Women would not just sit around and let things just happens. That is why women act and do things accordingly the way they do. Women will make things happen for themselves. Just like in the beginning of the book, Janie remember what she wants to remember and forget what she wants to forget in the pasts of her life. Only women can make a choice to remember or forget whatever they pleased. This is related how Janie, in the beginning of the novel, remembered the things she wants to remember. In the novel, Nanny said, “So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. (17)” Men treats women as if they are animals, when they supposed to be treat like queen. No black women in this world want no men to treat them …show more content…

Men also understands things more than women, they knows the difference between things. As stated in the text, ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with… his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men (1). Unlike women, men are more practical, men knows their dreams are unattainable. Their dreams is illustrates as if it in a ship that is distant and would not make it onto the shore. Which saying that men are lazy and will not be able to purse their dreams because they know that it would not come true. They realized that their dreams are unrealistic, meaning that they become more resigns with their fate and move on with their life. Men are not like women. Women live their life between dream and reality. The author illustrates this point when she asked, Why must Joe be so mad with her for making him look small when he did it to her all the time? Men always put down women and expect them to take it while it not true. It was an unfair double standard of what Joe says about Janie. Joe expect for Janie nothing to do nothing while he is talking foolish about her in front of other people. Woman do not want a husband that would talk down on them in front of people. Women expect their men to talk about them positively around people, because it shows other people how well the relationship between the two is. The women cannot insult their men without

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