The character Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching GodIn Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Crawford is the heroine. She helps women deal with their own problems by dealing with hers. She deals with personal relationships as well as the search for self-awareness. Janie Crawford is more than a hero, however, she is a woman who overcame the restrictions imposed by oppressive forces and people in her life. As a young woman, Janie did not complain about her role in society and fit in as most young people do. Eventually, Janie made it her goal to break out of this mold, defying her societal role and realizing her dream of becoming the assertive woman she always wanted to be. To personalize the novel, the female perspective is introduced very early in the story. "Now women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly" (Page 1) . This phrase not only explains the female dreams in Janie's world, but it also foreshadows the restrictions placed on women in this world. “They act and do things accordingly.” Women are expected to conform and not fight back when told they are not allowed to... middle of paper ...... Link: Feminist Strategies in American Fiction. " Women's Studies 28.2 (1999): 185-201. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Perennial Classics, 1990. Interpretations: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Kayano, Yoshiko. “Burden, Escape, and the Role of Nature: A Study of Janie's Development in Their Watching Eyes of God” Mississippi Philological Association Publications (1998): 36-44. Kubitschek, Missy Dehn "'Tuh from Horizon and Back': The Feminine Quest in Their Eyes Looked at Modern Criticism."