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... Lucy, “…uh li’l bitty gal wid black eyes and long hair plats…” (Hurston/Novels & Stories 23) has created a character that is very much real and human and whose outlines will remain the reader’s remembrance long after the book has been laid aside. Much of her second novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God “…a fascinating book that is written with deep feeling and sparkling wit…” (Witcover 104), centers on the topic of liberated black woman. In Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Lucy Pearson, is still the picture of loyalty and devotion. She is a woman hovering always near rebellion and assertion of individuality, yet she “lacks the determination or desire to break completely with past mores and folkways” (Bloom/Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.30 218). Janie Starks, the central character of Miss Hurston’s second novel, ...