Character Analysis Of Janie In Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the first character with a different interest in the novel would be Janie. At the beginning, she is revealed as a beautiful woman, who is dressed in overalls walking down the street. She is uncertain of the way she desires to live and who she is as a person. Her uncertainty is stated clearly, “Yeah, Pheoby, Tea Cake is gone. And dats de only reason you see me back here.” One spring afternoon Jannie’s grandmother spots Janie kissing Johnny Taylor, which shows the rebellious side of Janie. Janie starts to dwell on her past and illustrate to Pheoby how Tea Cake came to be in a relationship with her. Janie states that she grew up thinking she was white, “Ah didn’t know ah wuzn’t white till Ah was round