Their Eyes were watching God by Z. Hurston

In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the protagonist, Janie, overcomes the looming evil of prejudices though first being emotionally pulled in conflicting directions concerning dreams, ambitions, obligations, and influences. Janie’s desires involve her internal wants of love and a life worth living. Janie’s society, considering the setting being the 1920s, sets desires of conformity and submission with its views. Janie’s ambitions regard her goals and needs for individuality and success not in her worldly affairs but in her spiritual. Society’s ambitions for her regard a lasting marriage and a family. Janie considers her obligations or responsibilities as being a faithful wife and a member of society. Society obliges her to being a good wife and a controlled woman. Janie’s influences involve the things and people who have profound effects on her including the idea of a higher being, Tea Cake and the porchsitters. In turn she influences others including her ...