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Zoe Neale Hurson's Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Poor judgment, aggression, and reckless behavior are only three of the effects of having bipolar disorder, and are all qualities that Janie Mae Crawford has or develops in Zoe Neale Hurson’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie was born to an unwed teen mother who was raped, because of this her grandmother, who is referred to as Nanny in the novel, took in her granddaughter and raised her as her own child. Since Janie was brought into this world through a sexual crime she spends the rest of the novel trying to get away from it by trying to force love and passion into her life because she didn’t want to end up like her biological mother who never seemed to have this. This causes her to show signs of bipolar disorder but this is never mentioned

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