How does Janie Crawford in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God demonstrate the struggle black women experience to see beyond the shadows imposed on them by culture? Outline Janie’s struggle to see and experience a reality beyond the shadows.

We began the class with an examination of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” In the cave chained people watch shadows play along a wall. They do not see reality; instead, they see imperfect and false images of reality. How does Janie Crawford in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God demonstrate the struggle black women experience to see beyond the shadows imposed on them by culture? Outline Janie’s struggle to see and experience a reality beyond the shadows. How does each successive husband’s treatment of Janie allow her to see beyond the shadows of marriage and to the emergence of a new self? Explain.