herself. Janie, all her life, had been pushed around and told what to do and how to live

her life. She searched and searched high and low to find a peace that makes her whole

and makes her feel like a complete person. To make her feel like she is in fact an

individual and that she's not like everyone else around her. During the time of 'Their

Eyes', the correct way to treat women was to show them who was in charge and who was

inferior. Men were looked to as the superior being, the one who women were supposed

to look up to and serve. Especially in the fact that Janie was an African American

women during these oppressed times. Throughout this book, it looks as though Janie

makes many mistakes in trying to find who she really is, and achieving the respect that

Living with her Grandmother and theWashburns', Janie was surrounded and

raised with white children. She always believed that she was white herself, and that she

was no different than anybody else. As she was growing up, she was told what to do and

how to live by her grandmother. Janie's grandmother planned her life out fo

places and met many new people that she would've never met had she stayed with Logan

see you married right away." Janie's grandmother did want what was best for Janie, but

be like a prison sentence. "Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated, did it

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Approximate Word count = 1455
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)