Their Eyes Were Watching God characters
Janie’s best friend in Eatonville. Pheoby gives Janie the benefit of the doubt when the townspeople gossip viciously about Janie. She is the audience for Janie’s story, and her presence is occasionally felt in the colloquial speech that the narrator mixes in with a more sophisticated...
Leafy is Janie’s mother. When Nanny was younger, and a slave, the master of the plantation repeatedly raped her. Later Nanny ran away from the plantation and hid for months until the war ended. She named the baby Leafy because she had hidden the baby in the moss of the forest. When Leafy is...
This cute boy has an important influence on the story. What do we mean? Johnny Taylor is the first boy that Janie kisses being a teenager. Probably she feels something lovely to him, and that makes her think that feelings are a very nice thing, and the aim of marriage should be in this – in...
Janie’s first husband. Nanny arranges Janie’s marriage to Logan because she values financial security and respectability over love. Logan pampers Janie for a year before he tries to make her help him with the farming work. Feeling used and unloved, Janie leaves him for Jody Starks. He...
Tea Cake is Janie's third and the best husband. Nevertheless, even being younger from Janie (almost twelve years) he studies her how to love and shows how is it to be loved, also how to behave properly in relationships and simply how to live this life in the happiest way. Tea Cake is described...
Janie is lovely and charming black woman. Being little girl, she was brought up by her grandmother, Nanny. As the girl adores her, she always listens to her in everything. Once nanny even found a man to get married to her and Janie agreed. After some time she understands that marriage is a matter...
Janie's grandmother is a typical slave who shows the thoughts and fears of average people of that era. Nanny values wealth and security more than anything else, that’s why she likes the idea of getting married on rich Logan Killicks. She sees that Janie’s first victory is that she...
Joe is Janie's second husband. He is a perfect match for Janie as he is ambitious, handsome and full of energy. When they both run away from the city to another one, he becomes a mayor. And as usual, he forgets what the main in life is and changed completely. He makes his house white; even to...
This is a white, nice family. Our hero – Nanny is working as a nanny for the Washburns when Janie is a young girl. Fortunately, the family was really warm to black people especially to Nanny and little Janie. Usually, the Washburns try to treat Janie like a member of their family. They buy...
Mrs. Turner is a mixed-race woman who hates her blackness and wishes to be white. Making such a character as Turner author shows how ugly it is to turn back from your culture and from who you are. Turner is a much-disliked character in the story; her ‘whiteness’ is showed as very ugly...