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Literary Conventions
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The plot of Their Eyes Were Watching God is circular as the African sense of time is conceived and is based on the pattern of story-telling. The novel uses the plot device of the frame-story. The novel is in effect Janie's story, which she tells to her friend Phoeby. Janie's story includes the archetypal journey and numerous stories that major and minor characters tell each other in their various interactions. Janie tells her friend Phoeby that she may continue telling the story to neighbors who want to hear all about her adventures. She says to Phoeby, "Mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf"(6).
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Program content by Violet Bryan,Ph.D. and Robin Vander
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