The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, is written from a female point of view. The narrator of the story, Janie, is searching for her own identity in a world were she is made to believe that her individual character is not important. Her journey eventually takes her deep into her soul affecting things she only desired. The story begins with Janie returning to town alone. She goes to her house and her friend Phoebe comes by. As they sit Janie starts telling Phoebe her life story and explains why she returns to Eatonville. Janie's grandmother, Nanny, raised Janie after her mother, Leafy, ran off because her school teacher rapped her. Nanny did everything she thought she could to make sure Janie grew up right so she married her off to Logan Killicks a wealthy old man. Janie's dreams of a beautiful love are killed after being wed to him so she runs off with Joe Starks looking for a better life. Yet her marriage is once again loveless because of Joe's need to look the best in the town. After Joe dies, she mourns and becomes a decent widow. She meets Tea Cake Wood, a younger man who has nearly no money and no class, and falls in love. They leave town and start yet another journey that ends up in another loss. The author uses the life of Janie to show how a woman gets the life she wants.
             From the beginning the way a women's mind worked was made very clear. Yet Janie was set to break that mold and become her own person.
             "Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly" (pg 1)
             The dreams in Janie's mind are set with restrictions given by the people around her. Like her grandmother who makes her marry Logan. Women in Janie's eyes are supposed to follow orders and believe in the dream that is usually coming from other peoples thoughts. Yet b...