Unlike weak female characters like Mattie from "Ethan Frome", Janie is a strong person who is willing to stand up for her beliefs. Although Jaine was in abusive relationships, she managed to escape them, she even forced Joe to listen to her when she was dying. It is important to recognize feminism as women make up a large percentage of our society, although in today's society we still limit women, perhaps not as terribly as in the past, although we cannot deny that women are still limited. Women don't have the same pay, they can't choose to have an abortion, women still have the stereotype of the damsel in distress. It is a stereotype that limits our society, not improves it. Although “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a novel that refuses to have a cliché damsel in distress character. All Janie did was that by her actions alone she didn't need Tea Cake to help her farm beans, she did it on her own and by choice. In her own way, Zora Hurston wanted people, or especially men, to know that women can take care of themselves, that they don't need a man to help them farm. I believe this was shown through Janie speaking aggressively when other characters doubted her or how she killed Tea Cake by defending herself instead of screaming and running away. Zora Hurston wanted to create a character that gave women the confidence to stand up and fight for civil and social rights during the 1930s and I