and probably will never need another husband. Janie loves herself and is completely content with who she is as a person, nothing was going to hold her back, especially not the fact that she was unmarried. That possibly could have been how Zora felt at that time in her life when she was writing Their Eyes Were Watching God. When Hurston was just finishing college and beginning her writing career in the 1920’s, she was living in a very different America to that of With radios rising in popularity, the 1920’s gave us the first wave of pop music like we know it today (“The Jazz Age”). The first of many new appliances were just hitting store shelves like, refrigerators, washing machines, telephones, and cars. The 1920’s gave birth to the first generation of rebellious teenagers as we know them today (“The Jazz Age”). They strayed away from the times of their parents through the use of slang, music, and fashion, just like the average teenager in 2016. In the Twenties, women were cutting their hair and their hemlines shorter. These were also some of the first women to vote, and to get a real job “flappers” outside of the home. Although many women still stayed at home to raise children, the popularity of women working outside of the home increased dramatically. After WWI, most of America’s working force, primarily young men, were out at war, so women had to step in and fill the shoes of men in factories. All of these things came together to create the 1920’s as Zora knew it. This atmosphere that she lived in made it very easy for her to include feminist themes in her novels, as the role of women in society directly affected her, so of course she would write about it. Not only did the of women’s rights in the United States affect her directly, so did race relations. Zora, as an African-American author, living in New
and probably will never need another husband. Janie loves herself and is completely content with who she is as a person, nothing was going to hold her back, especially not the fact that she was unmarried. That possibly could have been how Zora felt at that time in her life when she was writing Their Eyes Were Watching God. When Hurston was just finishing college and beginning her writing career in the 1920’s, she was living in a very different America to that of With radios rising in popularity, the 1920’s gave us the first wave of pop music like we know it today (“The Jazz Age”). The first of many new appliances were just hitting store shelves like, refrigerators, washing machines, telephones, and cars. The 1920’s gave birth to the first generation of rebellious teenagers as we know them today (“The Jazz Age”). They strayed away from the times of their parents through the use of slang, music, and fashion, just like the average teenager in 2016. In the Twenties, women were cutting their hair and their hemlines shorter. These “flappers” were also some of the first women to vote, and to get a real job outside of the home. Although many women still stayed at home to raise children, the popularity of women working outside of the home increased dramatically. After WWI, most of America’s working force, primarily young men, were out at war, so women had to step in and fill the shoes of men in factories. All of these things came together to create the 1920’s as Zora knew it. This atmosphere that she lived in made it very easy for her to include feminist themes in her novels, as the role of women in society directly affected her, so of course she would write about it. Not only did the of women’s rights in the United States affect her directly, so did race relations. Zora, as an African-American author, living in New