Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God displays the power struggle women and men held during this time. As many women were passive and accepted this lack of authority, main character Janie moves against the tide. Through her search for fulfillment in a...

Zora Neale Hurston, a prominent Harlem Renaissance writer, exposes early 20th century African American struggles of racism and sexism in her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God and her short story “Sweat.” Hurston shows how both female protagonist struggles to find themselves through physical and...