Their Eyes Were Watching God And Beloved

One major theme that brings Their Eyes Were Watching God And Beloved together is the one theme that they have in common which is facing reality. For both Janie and Sethe have to face reality at some point during the books, which will go and lead them to their overall either downfall from reality or finally seeing the true side of a situation. Throughout the books Janie and Sethe both have reality checks. Janie reality check is when she realizes how she was being used by her husband. Since they were considered rich in the town they lived in, her husband used her and Janie finally started to realize once she wasn’t able to go and do the things other wives do. She was more: “ Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didn’t seem sensible at all. That was because Jody never told Janie how jealous he was. He never told her how often he had seen the other men figuratively wallowing in it as she went about things in the store(Hurston 55).” This quote was proving that Joe was jealous of how much attention Janie got that is why he treated her like he owned her and wouldn’t let her do anything she wanted. Then, when Jody died she saw
She had to face reality that Beloved was her daughter and that she had to let her daughter go. She had to get past the reality of the ghost of 124 and has to go and continue to live her life. Once she is able to look past the ghost of 124 than life was easier for her. What they do to face reality is that Sethe looks at just forgetting beloved: “They forgot her like a bad dream. After they made up their tales, shaped and decorated them, those that saw her that day on the porch quickly and deliberately forgot her( Morrison 323).” They just tried to forget Beloved like she never happened. But, for Sethe this was going to be extra hard since Sethe was the one that killed her. Once Sethe is able to face the reality of what she really done. Then it will be easier to face the reality of the world