I thought that it would be cool to discuss our books that we read for a final last semester. Plus I have a lot of questions about it and I'm looking for some answers from people who've read it.
I have to admit when I first got Their Eyes Were Watching God, I thought it would be a really cool symbolic story about religion. Boy was I wrong! Personally, I did not like the book at all. Some parts just really annoyed me! When I first started reading it, I actually didn't mind it at all. I thought the story was going to head in a completely different direction so I kept on reading. Then I got to know the character of Janie and how fickle she was. She was soo annoying! It's like she had to have a husband. It's not like she couldn't just have a boyfriend, she had to have a husband. And the men she picked! The first one was just mean, the second one was too controlling and the third one was the one that really made me mad! Apparently her third husband, Tea-Cake, was supposed to be the best and the one that actually 'loved her'. However, HE BEAT HER! That's right! He whipped her! And you know what? She did nothing about it! She simply kept on being the trophy wife she was with her long hair and rockin bod. What the heck?!? I thought this book was supposed to be about strong women but that does not show strength to me! The fact that her own husband whipped her, who she loved more than anyone just totally put me on the edge and what made me not like the book right then and there.
Not only did I not like the characters, but I also did not like the ending. Tea-Cake gets bit by a dog and then has rabies?? I mean, COME ON! It sounds like a bad horror film! I could just picture it in my head, all going wrong from the beginning. I honestly thought that Janie would have been bit and she would have been put out of her misery!
Well that was my personal view on the book but I would love to discuss it more with anybody who also read it!
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