Both Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, are multi-faceted stories with central themes that repeat themselves throughout. ... (Hurston 2) They even go as far as making jaded comments about her hair and how she carries her body, as evidenced in this quote, "What dat forty year ole "oman doin" wid her hair swingin" down her back lak some young gal?"... Unlike in Hurston's book with Janie, who is constantly under the control of others and forced to live in a repressive and controlling society, Merricat is the ...

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