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Delia’s life become sour with all types of abuses since the fifteenth days of the marriage, the cruelties of her husband never stop until one day she shouts "Ah hates you tuh de same degree dat Ah useter love yuh," (Milne page 191). Her life has no meaning, not even the smallest or less insignificant happiness has shine in her relationship. As a woman, she has many responsibilities in the marriage except the role of a loving wife. She is the provider, she is the maid, the cooks, and she is even the one who covers the expense of her husband mistress. Her husband constantly humiliates just for fun; like when her husband decides to scares her with a rattle snake, makes fun of her physical appearance by calling her “skinny woman” kicks her foot when

he comes to bed. To survive all that she seeks the meaning of life in the fact that she can keep the payments of her house. The sad reality of Delia’s life, she is a hard working woman with zero encouragement and no moral support from her unemployed husband. Milne narration explain typical abuse we often see in real life. As time goes by, her misery increases, shame can no longer hide from her face, rage finds its way out until she gets courage to fight back and facing her abusive husband. “She seized the iron skillet from the stove and struck a defensive pose, which act surprised him greatly, coming from her” (Huston, page 278). Sykes frightening, that kind of action is new from Delia,his bullying seems to have a way to stop all alone, but she never finds the courage to do it. He always enjoying her misery and the no confrontation makes him think that he is invulnerable. At that time it was a game changing Delia cries out of loud that enough. Her reaction is not enough, but it is a reminder to Sykes that she has also blood running in her veins. Desperately, shetries to love him, being a good wife to him, however his eagle would not let him see the beauty and the courageous wife he has, every single effort that Delia does never mean nothing to this ungrateful and selfish husband. Hypocrisy is the scapegoat for many. “You should not be working on Sunday.” (Hurston page 189). Hurston clearly demonstrated in her writing the nonsense of Sykes instead of helping, loving, and encouraging his wife he is criticizing something that has no impact in their marriage just to manipulate Delia. Despite, his physical and verbal abuse he tried to take away her spiritual life, her only hope and Esperance.

 Pay back always hurt. There is time to laugh and a time to cry. “She hears Sykes moan her name and gets up to walk towards the door. He crawls towards her and realizes that she had been there the whole time.” (Hurston page 189). No matter the how big you are or how strong you feel, you always need somebody. Sweat taught us to treat others the same way we will like to be treated. If anytime you planted a hurtful seed at the end you will get a hurtful fruit. That is the karma rules.

Works Cited

"Sweat." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Ira Mark Milne. Vol. 19. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 187-209. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. "Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston, 1926." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999. 1047-1048. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.

“Sweat”Hurston, Zora Neale, ed. Backpack Literature Myliteraturelab Access Card An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Fifth ed. Longman Pub Group, 2015. Print. 277-286.

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