Their Eyes Were Watching God

The main character Janie returns home and goes past some ladies sitting on a porch. These ladies talk and gossip about why she returned and what she had been doing. Pheoby, tries to stand up for Janie because they other ladies don’t know what they’re talking about. Janie and Pheobe eat dinner and Janie tells her about her childhood. Janie was raised with white children and didn’t realize she was black. She didn’t know she was black because her owners treated her as if she was white.