The document discusses three lenses - historical, gender, and reader response - for analyzing Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It prompts considering Hurston's experience as a woman at the time in light of stereotypes, and references pages 89, 133, and 33 of the novel. It also briefly introduces Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory focusing on the reader's own interpretation from simple to complex on topical, interpretive and formal levels. Black minstrelsy is noted without explanation.