A Character Analysis on the Theme of Gender Roles in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale-Hurston Book Review by Top Papers

In this paper, the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston provides a gender construct that involves normative male/female gender roles, but ultimately provides a liberating feminist resolution for Janie. Also, the generational issue of traditional female roles models found in Nanny's character, provide more insight into how women are victimized and brought into situations that deny hem their freedom from aggressive men. Through a succession of marriages that ended with Janie being subjected to male misogyny throughout much of her life.