Empathy and Human Experience in TEWWG
The article, 'This is Water', by David Wallace discusses the idea that we as people put ourselves as the center of our universe while disregarding how people around us are feeling where the 'lack of empathy' factor plays in suggesting that we don't allow ourselves to empathize with the people around us but instead we create stereotypes off of first impressions. This can also be seen in Their Eyes Were Watching God, when Janie is judged by the people of her town in the beginning of the novel as they assume that Tea Cake had left her for a younger women. However, when Janie tells her story to Pheoby, she explains how she feels that she has lived her life to the fullest and now understands the meaning of love which is another common theme between the article and the novel since Wallace explains the importance of living through a situation to fully understand it. This can be seen when Janie was young and wanted to understand the feeling of love and had her own assumpti...