Read the excerpt from their eyes were watching god. anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. . insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t. once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. which aspect of early 20th-century society does hurston emphasize through the character of mrs. turner?

People were judged based on their skin color

Explanation:

Their Eyes Were Watching God follows the life of Janie Crawford, a girl of mixed black and white heritage, around the turn of the century...which was not an easy time to be of mixed race. As an adolescent, Janie sees a bee pollinating a flower in her backyard pear tree and becomes obsessed with finding true love.

From there, the novel documents her emotional growth and maturity through three marriages.

Firstly she is marriages to  farmer Logan Killicks because of her grandmother then she fells in love with a man and marriages him but he turns out to be a egoist man. Finally she marriages slick and fun-loving vagrant named Tea Cake. But a tragedy happens and all their marriage is destroyed.

it is B;People were judged based on their skin color.

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it is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story. the exposition will often have information about events that happened before the story began. the exposition is often the very first part of the plot.