Bert Cate's Their Eyes Were Watching God

The book was there, right in front of Bert Cates, but he could have avoided the hardship that was about to happen. His personal ideas and his job collided, and he choose the hard way. if your conscience and duty collide, then you should find a middle ground, every situation is different.

When Bertram Cate's stood up for his rights, he went to far. Cate's was reading a science book about Darwin's theory of evolution. If he had just hadn’t read it, just avoided it then their would be no trouble for him. When Rachel, Cate’s lover, asks him why he did it, he says “ Man wasn’t just stuck here like a geranium in a flower pot”. He says this as if it is an obvious fact, but most people in the town did not agree. Cate’s seems to think that the idea of creation is impossible to a far extent. We all have different opinions, and we should respect even the ones we don’t believe in.

He put his duty before his conscience. Drummond accepted that his client had different beliefs, and agreed to defend Cates, even though he had different opinions. Drummond says " The man who knows everything is probably a fool," this means that Drummond is open to learning about Other ideas and opinions, and isn't restricted in thinking. His rival team through out the books should expand their horizons too.

Rachel's father needs to accept Rachel and not change her way of thinking. Because Bert Cates, the evolutionist and Rachel's fiancé, is not supportive of the bible, Rev. Brown is ashamed of Rachel Here is a quote from Rachel talking about how she was terrified of him as a little girl. "I wanted to run to my father, and have him tell he I was safe, but I was always more frightened of him (then I was of nightmares)". This quote describes that Rachel knows her father won't care for her if she doesn't agree with him, and she should stand up for her self. Rachel should stand up for