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Janies Metamorphosis in Their Eyes Were Watching God       Their Eyes Were Watching God is a story about individuation and reality to say the least. Each stage in Janies life was a shaping moment. Her exact metamorphosis, while ambiguous was quite significant. Janies psychological identification was mold by many a(prenominal) people, foremost, Nanny, her grandmother and her established companions. Reality, indistinguishability, and feature go hand in hand in philosophy, identity is shaped by experience and with experience you accept reality. Life is irrefutably the search for identity and the shaping of it through the acceptance of reality and the experiences in life.   Identity is something every human quests for. Individuals tend to manipulate views, ideas, and prerogative. Janies identity became clay in her family and friends hands. Most noteworthy was Janies grandmother, Nanny. Janie blossomed into a young woman with an open mind and embryonic per spective on life. Being a young, willing, and all-encompassing of life, Janie made the fatal mistake of becoming involved in the follies of an infatuation with the opposite sex. With this phase in Janies life Nannys first strong hold on Janies neck flexed its grip. Preoccupation with romantic love took the backseat to Nannys stern view on settling down with someone with financial stability. Hence, Janies identity went through its first of many transformations. She fought within her self, torn between her adolescent sanction and Nannys harsh limitations, but final gave way and became a cast of Nannys reformation.   For a short time Janie shared out her life with her betrothed husband Logan Killicks. She desperately tried to become her new pseudo identity, to conform to the perfect housewife persona. Trying to make a union work that couldnt survive without love, love that Janie didnt have for Logan. Time and again Janie referred to love and her life in reference to nature, Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think... She often spoke to falling seeds and said Ah hope you fall on soft grounds... She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether(24 - 25). Logan had blown out the hope in Janies heart for any real love she experienced the death of the childish vision that life isnt a fairytale, her first dose of reality encountered and it tasted sour.