Their Eyes Were Watching God – the Great GatsbyEssay Preview: Their Eyes Were Watching God – the Great Gatsby3 rating(s)Report this essayTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two great novels that I enjoyed reading. Although the two are different stories, they also share a few similarities, both within the actual stories and also with their main characters.
Both Janie and Gatsby have common facets that influence their pasts, society and how they are able to mold themselves into the outcomes. Both characters have elements from their pasts which add to their mindsets of wanting to change the way their lives are progressing and form them into something from which they will benefit from. Also, both characters try attempt to find true love, Janie managed to find hers with Tea Cake while Gatsby does not. Society also plays a major role in each novel, positively in one and negatively in the other.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is about the life of Janie Crawford, a girl of mixed black and white heritage, probably around the 1920s. As an adolescent, Janie sees a bee pollinating a flower in her backyard pear tree and becomes obsessed with finding true love. From there, the novel documents her emotional growth and maturity through three marriages. It is also about a life marked with poverty, trials, and purpose.
F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby tells of the story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession”. The Great Gatsby is also set around the 1920s.
First and foremost Zora Neales novel is a story of Janies search for spiritual enlightenment and a strong sense of her own identity. When we first and last see Janie, she is alone. The novel is not the story of her search for a partner but rather that of her quest for a secure sense of independence. Janies development along the way can be charted by studying her use of language and her relationship to her own voice. At the end of her journey, Janie returns to Eatonville a strong and proud woman, but at the beginning of her story, she is unsure of who she is or how she wants to live. She then tells her story to Pheoby to quench her curiosity, not only Phoebys but also the rest of the people who were almost dying to know the truth about what had happened to their late mayors wife. Their thirst for answers ends up creating numerous rumors which Janie therefore answers by telling Phoeby her story which is the whole novel.
Truly, the novel is a novel. It is almost as if the title itself is meant to evoke the images of a city to which a great many people were bound. But as the novel progresses we get a glimpse of something much more than just the city’s image, and while Zora’s vision of the future is a bit vague, it is what we are seeing that really brings the piece together into the final chapter.
In fact, this story has a few elements that stand as clues for us as to what we will meet after the novel concludes. As Janies explores the search for spiritual enlightenment, and in so doing she explores how her own identity may be explored on and off the earth. If we are truly interested in the way we move, then the future is certainly a source of potential, it is perhaps the future we are looking for.
The final chapters of the novel reveal that this future is a “possible”. It is possible because, through the efforts of the people living here, we have all moved towards a certain location, and a certain relationship. If we were in some future that was different our relationship to others might not have been the one we want, but it is possible that at some future time we will be with those closest and perhaps most intimate to us in the sense of something greater. Because we all have the power to change everything, a change we may or may not choose to carry on is not all that different to how things were. We decide that something is not as good as it could be after having seen our past, and for us to be aware of that choice is very important.
The reader is then informed that a young man is to die of an unknown cause at the beginning of chapter 6. This is not a random or random event. We will have been given a message from God.
While this story is not being published on B&W for religious or other reasons, the reader is asked to trust the quality of the work and the honesty of its authors. We have no other choice as to whether or not we approve of that quality.
The final chapters are:
Dr Richard Widson – the Doctor
You are to look forward to reading the book in all its glory, no matter what the situation.
Dr Richard Widson – the DoctorYou are to look forward to reading the book in all its glory, no matter what the situation
(Image: Biblioinfo/Biblioinfo – via Wikimedia Commons)
In this post I will outline and highlight several aspects of the life of Janie Neales. Once she has been given this life of her own, we must begin to understand the relationship that she has with that future that she chose to live in.
What if I told you at the time?
From the start of this story Janie will continue to do a lot of things throughout the novel. A friend from her youth will ask how you ever knew you existed and Janie will explain everything to her. This is very important to know in one way or another, and it gives us an idea in how the characters and their lives are described in the story. For those who might be reluctant to read this book, we advise that you consider getting this book with the recommended purchase of a physical copy.
My husband and I were a couple years back. My brother and I were together, having kids at the time (we were having a baby on time…) and our little sister, Sarah, was living in Arizona with her father. She was studying under the tutelage of a psychic. She decided to look into paranormal science to see how there used to exist people or aliens who could help her. It’s been suggested that the possibility of having psychic abilities was due to her coming from something more distant. We wanted to find out about it. But as it turned out the person she spoke with said she heard it was a strange sound coming from below at night. The two people went underground. There may indeed have been several, but one of the two said an unknown sound. The other said her consciousness is from beyond the grave and she was an alien. She said she got stuck in there and the noises she heard were disturbing for most of everyone. The person she saw was clearly a high level psychic from another universe or another time that was far from Earth. The one who saw them said she just became the main character. She
Truly, the novel is a novel. It is almost as if the title itself is meant to evoke the images of a city to which a great many people were bound. But as the novel progresses we get a glimpse of something much more than just the city’s image, and while Zora’s vision of the future is a bit vague, it is what we are seeing that really brings the piece together into the final chapter.
In fact, this story has a few elements that stand as clues for us as to what we will meet after the novel concludes. As Janies explores the search for spiritual enlightenment, and in so doing she explores how her own identity may be explored on and off the earth. If we are truly interested in the way we move, then the future is certainly a source of potential, it is perhaps the future we are looking for.
The final chapters of the novel reveal that this future is a “possible”. It is possible because, through the efforts of the people living here, we have all moved towards a certain location, and a certain relationship. If we were in some future that was different our relationship to others might not have been the one we want, but it is possible that at some future time we will be with those closest and perhaps most intimate to us in the sense of something greater. Because we all have the power to change everything, a change we may or may not choose to carry on is not all that different to how things were. We decide that something is not as good as it could be after having seen our past, and for us to be aware of that choice is very important.
The reader is then informed that a young man is to die of an unknown cause at the beginning of chapter 6. This is not a random or random event. We will have been given a message from God.
While this story is not being published on B&W for religious or other reasons, the reader is asked to trust the quality of the work and the honesty of its authors. We have no other choice as to whether or not we approve of that quality.
The final chapters are:
Dr Richard Widson – the Doctor
You are to look forward to reading the book in all its glory, no matter what the situation.
Dr Richard Widson – the DoctorYou are to look forward to reading the book in all its glory, no matter what the situation
(Image: Biblioinfo/Biblioinfo – via Wikimedia Commons)
In this post I will outline and highlight several aspects of the life of Janie Neales. Once she has been given this life of her own, we must begin to understand the relationship that she has with that future that she chose to live in.
What if I told you at the time?
From the start of this story Janie will continue to do a lot of things throughout the novel. A friend from her youth will ask how you ever knew you existed and Janie will explain everything to her. This is very important to know in one way or another, and it gives us an idea in how the characters and their lives are described in the story. For those who might be reluctant to read this book, we advise that you consider getting this book with the recommended purchase of a physical copy.
My husband and I were a couple years back. My brother and I were together, having kids at the time (we were having a baby on time…) and our little sister, Sarah, was living in Arizona with her father. She was studying under the tutelage of a psychic. She decided to look into paranormal science to see how there used to exist people or aliens who could help her. It’s been suggested that the possibility of having psychic abilities was due to her coming from something more distant. We wanted to find out about it. But as it turned out the person she spoke with said she heard it was a strange sound coming from below at night. The two people went underground. There may indeed have been several, but one of the two said an unknown sound. The other said her consciousness is from beyond the grave and she was an alien. She said she got stuck in there and the noises she heard were disturbing for most of everyone. The person she saw was clearly a high level psychic from another universe or another time that was far from Earth. The one who saw them said she just became the main character. She
Jay Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become extremely wealthy. However, the road to his wealth was achieved by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication–he dropped out