Rejection of Their Eyes Were Watching God In 1937, Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was published for the first time. It was over three decades later, in 1973, when the novel was "rediscovered" by Alice Walker, a novelist. Since the time when Walker wrote a magazine article about Hurston, the novel sold over one million copies. In 1937, the book "sold fewer than 5,000 copies"(Holmes, 2). What was it, in particular, that during Hurston's time ... made the novel such a bad seller? Reviews made the novel a fast-forgotten piece of fiction. Bad reviews were given to the book...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... idolization of whites is not the key to happiness or success. In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is enslaved by this emphasis on materialism and Nanny's unattainable aspirations. Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated ... their own second class-ness. Janie ends her childhood with her marriage to Logan Killicks, who, by Nanny's standards, is a go...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School