In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie Woods, represents the black female life experience. Hurston develops the story in a way for us to understand another life. Throughout the book, Hurston talks about the black womanhood in America and allows the audience to see the oppression that they go through. Not only do we get a sense of what a black woman’s life is like, but we get to hear a voice and see life through the eyes of a distinguantdistinguished black woman.
Hurston develops this story for us to understand a new life that some people may not experience and understand. Hurston worewrote the story as if Janie were speaking to the readers. As Amanda Bailey suggests, the way that Hurston creates her narrative, the readers can better experience Janie’s story and how she is able to grow (6). Hurston writes this to show the hardships that black females have and still are going through. The readers can get more of an emotional appeal because Janie is actually telling her story herself. She creates Their Eyes Were Watching God, so her readers could be able to vision and understand what Janie went through. Hurston creates Janie in a way that seems logical, “Janie orders the story in such a way that she chronicles her progress from dependence to independence, while Hurston gives us the story of Janie’s development from silent ‘object’ to speaking ‘subject’” (Meese, 61). Hurston puts Janie with certain men to show how some people treat the black females in society. In some relationships she didn't speak, but at the end when she was with Tea Cake, she talked about everything. After part of her life ends, she is faced with independence and Janie finds the fulfillment in life without needing a husband.