Comparing Characterization in Alias Grace, Their Eyes...

Characterization in Alias Grace, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Fools Crow Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood is a novel where the main character Grace is a sort of mystery character. In the end she is at peace, but there are still many questions about her left unanswered. Because Atwoods style of writing is informative, yet unclear at the same time, the audience is left to put the pieces of the puzzle that is Grace together themselves. This leaves the reader guessing about her character. Two other works that contrast the characterization of Grace Atwood uses in Alias Grace are Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and Fools Crow in Fools Crow by James Welch. The characterization the authors use†¦show more content†¦You learn all there is to know about Janie through her three marriages. Her take on love and marriage is make very clear by the end of the book. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand year sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace...So this was marriage! (Hurston 11). He r thoughts are so detailed and rich. She is the type of character who is easy to relate to. According to the Kingwood College Librarys site on Zora Neale Hurston, the whole novel is based around Janies journey in trying to find herself. Her thoughts and feelings are expressed fully throughout the novel and there are no doubts about the type of sincere, living woman that she is. It is not difficult to guess how she will react in different situations. Janie and Grace are opposites when it comes to emotion and expression. Atwood made Grace intelligent, but she doesnt do a lot of reflecting on love and her life in general. Throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie spends a lot of her time pondering love and how it fits into her life. From the beginning of her story under the pear tree Janie undergoes the process of self-discovery... (Novel Guide 1). Grace, on the other hand, doesnt express or experience love even when she marries Jaime Walsh at the end of the book. I have been married to Mr. Walsh for almost a year now, and although it is not