"Their Eyes" as Bildungsroman

Although Janie experiences a great deal of growth throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God, I am not one-hundred percent convinced that this novel is a bildungsroman. While this story has many of the characteristics, including the crossing of the bridge between single childhood and marriage, some physical growth, and growth mentally and emotionally by learning through experience what she does not like in marriage and what she does like, this story does not seem to have the neat conclusion that many other bildungsromans have. For example, Pip finds out the truth about his benefactor and issues come to a climax with Stella, or Huck chooses friendship with Jim over Hell, tries to set Jim free, and finds out that Jim has already been freed and they can all go home. With Their Eyes, Janie merely loses her only true lover, experiences a court trial that is mostly summarized, not told as a moment-by-moment sense experience, and which thereby denies the reader much experience of it. Despite the wisdom that Janie gains and shares in the end of her conversation with Pheoby, the lack of closure makes it difficult for me to accept this as a classic or typical bildungsroman.