The image of the horizon in Their Eyes Were Watching God is a reaccuring image throughout the novel. The novel begins with an image of the horizon:
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. (1)
and ends with an image of the horizon:
She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. (184)
The theme of the horizon is important in the novel because it direct
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