Dear Mrs. Kolich, I was surprised at how, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Hurston decided to develop Janie from the beginning of the novel to the end. I thought the way she used each of her husbands and how each husband played a specific role in Janie developing her own voice and developing her own person. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Hurston, Janie embarks on a journey where she finds self-knowledge of what it means to be a woman in a predominantly patriarchal society. The process of Janie finding her voice is a difficult journey in which she faces many obstacles that cause her to curb her speech and consequently hinders her personal development. Janie first has the realization that marriage does not “compel love like the
