Their Eyes Were Watching God Flashcards
Tea cake
Janie’s 3rd husband and 1st real love, 12 years younger, quick wit and zest for living, real affection and understanding of Janie, respects her and doesn’t try to change her, steals from her and beats her and makes him more real
Janie Mae Crawford
Protagonist, defies categorization, black but flaunts hair like white, defies gender roles by being independent and wearing overalls, behind defiance is curiosity and confidence to experience world and become aware of her relation to it, maturity comes from ability to recognize cruelty towards her or inability to understand her comes from upbringing or limited perspective
Jody Starks
Janie’s second husband, travels from Georgia to Eatonville for ambition and power, politician and businessman, becomes postmaster mayor storekeeper and biggest landlord, treats Janie as an object rather than a person
Logan Killicks
Janie’s first husband, nanny arranges marriage for financial security and reputation over love, pampers Janie for a year before trying to force her to help with the farm work
Phoeby Watson
Janie’s best friend in Eatonville, gives Janie benefit of doubt while the townspeople gossip about Janie, audience for Janie’s story
Nanny Crawford
Janie’s grandmother, was a slave and gave her concern for financial security, respectability and upwards mobility, clash with Janie’s independence and desire to experience the world, Janie comes to respect Nannys values and decisions
Mr. And Mrs. Turner
Everglades residents who runs a small restaurant, mrs. Turner prides herself on her white features and disdains anyone with a more African appearance, worships Janie because of her Caucasian features, cannot understand why Janie likes tea cake and wants to introduce her to her brother
Sam Watson
Phoebys husband, source of great humor and wisdom during conversations on jodys porch, when residents express anger towards Jody, Sam acknowledges that he can be overbearing and commanding, but there have been many improvements
Leafy Crawford
Janie’s mother, ran away just before civil war to give birth to Janie
Amos hicks
Resident in Eatonville, one of first to meet Janie and Jody, unsuccessfully tries to lure Janie away from Jody,
Motor boat
One of tea cakes and Janie’s friends in Everglades, flees hurricane with hem and weather out storm in abandoned house
Hezekiah potts
Delivery boy and assistant shopkeeper at jodys store, after jodys death Potts begins to mirror jodys affections
Dr. Simmons
Friendly white doctor who is known in the muck
Johnny Taylor
Janie kisses when she feels desire at 16 and prompts nanny to set up marriage
Annie Tyler and who flung
Wealthy widow who lived in Eatonville, and her younger fiancé took her money and ran, early to marriage to tea cake Janie fears they will be like them
Mr. And Mrs. Washburn
Nannys employers after she became free, nanny lived in a house in their backyard and helped raise Janie with the washburn’s children
Nunkie
Girl in the Everglades who flirts relentlessly with tea cake, Janie grows very jealous of her but tea cake assures her she means nothing and she is never seen again
Analysis Of Janie
First and foremost about search for spiritual enlightenment and a secure sense of independence, beginning of story unsure of who she is, Jody Starks offers alt. compared to Logan
Analysis of tea cake
Catalyst to drive Janie to her goals, supporting role, accelerates spiritual growth, creative and vivacious personality, encourages Janie’s personality,
Jody Starks
Opposite of tea cake, cruel conceited and uninterested in Janie as a person, cruelty results from values he holds and his relationship to the world, depends on exertion of power for his sense of self, dominate everything, existence based on. Purchasing building, bullying and political planning
