Their Eyes Were Watching God: The meaning in the title

In the literary since, this expression is used in the book to describe the expressions that the people had during the hurricane disaster. It describes it as them looking up at the sky with a look of wonder. Yet, there is an underlying meaning underneath this which evokes a much deeper meaning. The problem here is to try and understand what its saying and at least try to hit within the ballpark. The title, this very expression is very emblematic. Why is it that these people’s eyes were watching God? As explained before there is a bit of an explanation but it’s not very satisfying. In that case, was Janie’s observation of this representative of her life? I believe that the context in which she would use it is probably used to describe the way people behave. Especially when referring to her town. What first came to mind for me is that people look up to the sky as to blame God for anything that might be going wrong or out of control. As in the case of the hurricane people looked up as a way of pleading for help or asking Him why did he allow for this to happen? Yet sometimes when it occurs that something within our hands happens, we like to not take responsibility and just blame God for whatever is happening. Also, it might refer to the fact that many people claim to be righteous when in fact they are not. People have the tendency to become preoccupied with showing off how religious they are and always in a way “watch God”. Yet they tend to forget that there’s a physical world to which they are bound and have responsibilities in it as well.