Comparing Symbolical Language in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Great

Symbolical Language in Their Eyes Were Watching God and The broad Gatsby In some novels, strong impressions are exploited to conceal otherwise meanings. Unraveling these symbolic word puzzles may reveal insights into the authors perspective and ones own secrets. A careful analysis of selected passages of two books Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God and Francis Scott Fitzgeralds The neat Gatsby, will show that symbolical language can reveal even out more insight. In this comparison, symbolism in the passages containing variations of the words blossom or bloom of youth will be examined to reveal human development beyond sexuality and anatomy. The protagonist, Janie, in Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God, was sixteen years anile when a series of natural events led to her to unlocking the secrets of her own sexuality. Janie had spent approximately of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the dressing yard introduces a location suitable for observing a miracle of reproduction in nature. The word blossoming indicates the narrators comments are in the expeditious present tense. The next few sentences, changing to past tense, reveal that this incident day--the third day--was much different than the first two. That was to say, ever since the first petite bloom had opened. The author poetically reveals progressive stages of pear tree flowers blooming along with their pollination by bees. This process so intensely intrigues Janie that her enhance awareness triggers previously hidden sensual emotions and desires. Janies continuous observation of the interplay among the specify and insect kingdom--mixed with her own intuitive feelings while lying on her back beneath the pear tree--leads her to a burst of in... ...prevent Gatsby from relating to other nice girls manage Daisy (148). In other words, both Janie and Gatsby had stumbled into a new awareness because of major(ip) turning points in their lives, but these were j ust beginnings They had graduated from being full-grown up children, but now they were like children at being adults take over having much to learn. The remaining story developments of both books detail further fruit in the character development of the protagonists and the principle characters. And so it is with us and how we go the mysteries of symbolism in literary word puzzles, that we as readers can besides grow like blossoms blooming through the eyes of Hurston and Fitzgerald. Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The ample Gatsby. New York Scribner, 1953. Hurston, Zora N. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York Harper & Row, 1937.