Janie Crawford is the girl you want to hate so bad. She is absolutely beautiful and she gets all the guys. What more reason do you need? Well, we find it extremely hard to do this throughout "Their Eyes Were Watching God." On top of gorgeous and having every man to ever come in contact with her wrapped around her finger, Janie is also sweet and caring. She doesn't flaunt her beauty in arrogant ways. She is a legitimately likable person who only wants the best for others around her and herself. She is determined to find love and knows that she deserves it. She is a respectable women. She doesn't let men control her, well that is not completely true. Her first marriage she is forced into, even though she does not love her husband. She gets herself out of it when she knows her life is in danger and she will never love her husband. She leaves him because she thinks she has found true love. She ends up with Joe Starks who we think is the one. He turns out to be a dud, and out of the kindness of her heart she sticks it out with him, despite how horrible he has been to her and everyone around her, until his deathbed where she finally unleashes her mind to him. She sets off to find her true love, once again. She never gives up because she knows someone is out there who will satisfy her need and she is determined to find this one man. I respect her for this. Despite her grandmothers bad run-in with the male species as well as her mothers, she doesn't give up. She perseveres because she knows in her heart she will win, eventually. I genuinely liked Janie in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" because she was easily one of the pretty-girl-characters, but at the same time the respectable and independent women you cannot help but like and root for.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel. New York: Perennial Library, 1990. Print.
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