Their Eyes Were Watching God
Blossoming Vision
O white pear,
your flower-tufts
thick on the branch
bring summer and ripe fruits
in their purple hearts.
-H.D.
The pear tree that first appears in Chapter One symbolizes the theme of Janie’s self-fulfillment in Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the …
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…arrived back home by herself, a middle-aged woman wearing overalls and tying her long hair in a great rope. Janie is a woman determined to live up to her high level of awareness and her loftiest vision of what a human life should be and in the end she has found her life, her love, her pear tree and she is contended to go on with her life knowing that her pear tree has blossomed.
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