How Janie’s Background Has Effected Her Coming of Age

In the end of the bidungsromans novel, by Zora Neal Hurston, Janie , the protagonist, realizes that the life she has created and experienced had both a cause and an effect. When finally realizing that her actions made her future “she called in her soul to come and see” the amazing outcome of freedom and agency she had finally received in her life. The family background and childhood of Janie had a major part and effect in the actions and outcomes of Janie’s life. The men in Janie’s life were the obvious climax and action of Janie’s childhood, but Nanny, Janie’s mother, and the white family that Janie lived with were definitely the  cause of them because they really had a way of persuading Janie of which man was the right man when it came to having security in her life. The two sets of people, family and lovers, in the end made the outcome of Janie’s existence.