Throughout Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie's voice makes a drastic evolution, changing from a confined, timid and sometimes lifeless Janie early in the book, into a more sociable, original and expressive Janie near the end. Her grandmother, who partially limited her extents and forced her marriage to Logan Killicks upon her early in the book, conquered her life before the book's beginning and near the beginning. Janie's voice in Their Eyes …showed first 75 words of 944 total…

…showed last 75 words of 944 total…life was more valuable than she had been led to believe in the past. Going from "...back an forth under the pear tree continuously wondering and thinking..." (p. 21) to knowing exactly what she was thinking, loving her dear husband Tea Cake, and grieving the terrible loss of him; Zora Neale Hurston conveyed Janie's voice in a very emotional manner, and developed her voice in a very interesting way very unique to her style of writing.