Their Eyes Are Watching God is written by Zora Neal Hurston. The novel is written during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. During the Harlem Renaissance, African American culture began to flourish. People began to recognize and support African Americans; however, there were still laws against African Americans and people still had prejudices against them. Their Eyes Are Watching God is the story of a woman, Janie Crawford, who was divorced twice before falling madly in love with her third husband, Tea Cake. The story presents his trials and tribulations in finding true love. When she married her second husband, Joe Starks, he made her put her long, beautiful hair in a headband so other men wouldn't be attracted to her. Janie lets her hair down for the first time in twenty years when Joe dies, removing the rags symbolizing the constraints placed on women by powerful men. Janie was raised by her grandmother whom she called Nanny; she never meets her mother or father. Janie and Nanny lived in the back of the Washburn house, which was a white house....