Their Eyes Were Watching God Literary Analysis Essay

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“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston is about a girl named Janie who is living in a time where many African American people were discriminated against, making it a very hard lifestyle. One important person in Janie’s life is Nanny, who is her grandmother. Nanny’s main goal in the later part of her life is to ensure that her granddaughter is able to have as good a quality of life as possible as she herself had to experience many hardships and first hand experiences that impacted her life in negative ways. After Janie turns sixteen, Nanny is worried that she can't support her much longer and believes that the best way to provide stability for the rest of her life is in a marriage but Janie views this issue in a different way and