Powerful Symbols in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

world-beaterful Symbols in Their eyeball Were Watching immortal by Zora Neale Hurston In 1937, upon the first publication of Their look Were Watching God, the most influential gruesome writer of his time, Richard Wright, stated that the novel carries no theme, no message, and no thought. Wrights ruling critique epitomized a nations attitude toward Zora Neale Hurstons second novel. African-American critics read a book that they felt satisfied the white mans stereotype of African-American close and the humor which Caucasians saw in that prejudice. However, those critics and most of America overlooked the grand use of imagery, symbolism, and thematic application of one African-American females journey into cleaning woman and self-identification in a male-dominated society. Hurston introduced Janie Crawford, a strong, articulate, and dramatic character whose life was best(p) empathized by women or by inhabitants of migrant farms and rural Black towns. Their Eyes Were Watching God is permeated with recurring symbols, such as a pear shoetree tree, a fence-gate, and Janies hair, that enlighten a young girls quest for self-fulfillment, as she discovers the true up meaning of love and happiness through two failed marriages and one fortunate but tragic third. The strongest symbol in Their Eyes Were Watching God is the pear tree. The pear blossom is a representation of Janie, as she is a young girl blooming into a woman during a edge afternoon. Hurston explains this symbolism at the first of the chapter, describing Janie as a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches (Hurston 8) Janie wherefore lies beneath the tree, observes the bees pollinate a blossom, and ex... ...ecade of prejudice against African-Americans, women, and most importantly, African-American women. Sources Cited and Consulted Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood. Power Spatial and Racial Intersections in Faulkner and Hur ston.Journal of American Culture (1996) 95-110. Online. Internet. 8 December 2001. Available httpvweb.hwwilsonweb.com/ Fetterley, Judith. Introduction to the Resisting Reader a Feminist climb to American Fiction. The Critical Tradition Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. Ed. David H. Richter. Boston Bedford books, 1998. 991-998. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York Perennial Classics, 1990. Jacobs, Karen. From Spy-glass to Horizon Tracking the Anthropological esteem in Zora Neale Hurston. Novel (1997) 329-60. Online. Internet. 8 December 2001. Available httpvweb.hwwilsonweb.com/