There Eyes Were Watching God: A bildungsroman?

I must say that it is a bildungsroman book. Why? Well in the first place the book presented us with Janie, a character who has several layers to her and who throughtout her life was able to discover the different layers she had. She was able to enbark on a path of autodiscovery due to the choices that she made. Now, the choices all characters faced in the past novels are what make their novels bildungsroman. These decisions are what ultimately guide them to find a life of meaning and fulfullment. If it were otherwise, then I don't think we'd be interested in reading the lives of people who choose to stay on the safe side of things in order to avoid struggle, conflict or even change. Janie to me represents a character who doesn't want to stay on the safe side because throughout the whole novel she's given the opportunity to do so, but she knows something doesn't feel right about it. In a way she knows deep down that she's meant for so much more. She truely wants to achieve happiness and goes out to find it, in her case it kind of found her ;).