Both Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, are multi-faceted stories with central themes that repeat themselves throughout. The strongest and most ... Tea Cake, who was around 25. They pass judgment over her appearance, "What she doin coming back here in dem blue overalls? Can't she find no dress to put on?" (Hurston 2) They even go as far as making jaded comments about her hair and how she carries her body, as evidenced in this quote, "What dat forty year ole "oman doin ... someone killed half of the Blackwood family by...

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