life, because of the issue of jealousy. Even though Janie thought herself as nothing better than any other black girls, all of the girls feel Janie was just that much better than everyone else. Everyone else, except Janie, created a superior image of the character Janie. Janie didn't even realize she wasn't white like her childhood friends until she was six years old and saw a picture of herself. The major problem created by Janie's light facade was the fact that all of her friends seemed out to get her. They seemed overly jealous of her, and no matter what she did, or how hard she worked for it, they feel she achieved what she did solely because of her beautiful looks. (Jones 36) Hurston does a good job at portraying this feeling in the following quote by the people of Eatonville on Janie:"It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful" (111).
             Another chief problem faced by the people of the time was the idea of trying to survive the low quality of work available at the time. People worked as migrant workers, very similar to those in Jon Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. People would work tedious jobs for very little pay. People had to survive. Blacks especially had to do whatever they could to survive. Since this wasn't long after the ending of slavery, the overall population of blacks in the United States still wasn't very educated. They had to do whatever they could do for money, whenever they could get it. This wasn't so obvious in Janie's family ways, and after reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, it is apparent that the times seemed to be getting a little better as the story progressed. Janie experiences life through many different views throughout the novel, and all seem to have slightly different problems. First, she experiences life as a rich, light skinned girl who was always the envy of every other girl in town. Later, she experiences life as the wi...