This book was a huge disappointment for me. Janie, as the main character, should be the most well-rounded character in the novel, but she is so flat and two-dimensional that I honestly didn't care what happened to her. Even the mule was more interesting than she was. Changes in attitude come out of left-field (she decides that she hated her grandmother all along in the course of three sentences, contrary to all previous evidence), and so much time was spent describing her unparalleled beauty that it left me nauseous.The worst part for me was that Hurston was obviously a very talented writer. Every once and a while, there would be a flash of brilliance in the narration that would make me smile, but the bland main character and generally predicatable plot left me wishing Hurston had spent less time being poetic and more on developing Janie.