Hurston Writing Style

Based on Richard Wright’s critique and judgement on the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, Wright uses a candid tone and a sophisticated style of writing to argue that Hurston fails to exemplify a theme that addresses the Negro life. Instead, he claims that her novel supports the “white audience whose chauvinistic tastes she knows how to satisfy.” How does Wright know that Hurston knows how to satisfy the white audience? From this, one can assume that Wright probably knows more about her, and severely criticizes her writing style for not having the hardships and the race relations with the whites and the blacks. In my perspective, I disagree with Wright, in the sense that Hurston implies the notion of
The mule is a representation of freedom from being tortured by the ones who are superior to the mule, in this case the people were. Hurston views life in a way that there are several possibilities and she is going to use her “oyster knife,” to take over these opportunities. Readers see this in Janie, as she has an epiphany under the pear tree. From the beginning of the novel we see her running away from Logan to Joe, but now we can see that Janie can also run away from Joe, because she knows that life is full of possibilities and nothing is going to stop her from following what she truly believes. However, Wright criticizes Hurston for displaying this in her writing, as he believes that a change has to happen with white and black relations. He would view art as being a way to express social activism, that is straightforward and to the point about blacks in society. If he was an artist, he would have drawn a black fist to represent his words. In contrast to Wright’s outlook, Hurston, if she was an artist, would probably draw a black woman with a suitcase looking at the sunset and horizon scenery as a symbol of hope in the