her mother. In the short story “Sweat” written by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Delia Jones is an African American washwoman who works to support her husband Sykes and herself.
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and a way to get his pride back. Sweat was the story of an African-American wash-woman‚ Delia. She was constantly abused and was trapped under her tyrannical husband‚ Sykes who openly cheated on her with another woman. Despite all her hardships with her husband‚ she worked long and hard using her own sweat and blood to clean clothes. As their relationship got even worse‚ Sykes decided to pull an ugly prank on Delia that would later backfire on him. Both stories had their similarities and differences
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sympathetic towards the main character Delia. What she was going through no one deserved. No one deserves an abusive husband whether it is verbally or physically. I also felt the husband wasn’t appreciative at all for what his wife was doing for him. He didn’t appreciate her strong will to love him‚ nor did he appreciate the labor she put in to make him happy. It was actually sad to hear other characters in the story talk about how they would have liked to have dated Delia.
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stories are going to be oblivious to one another. The character Delia‚ from author Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” is remarkably like George Saunders’ character Callie in his short story “Puppy.” Though Saunders’ conjured up Callie more than seventy-five years after Hurston thought of Delia‚ the popular author incorporated some of the same ideas in his protagonist as the famous Harlem Renaissance author did in hers. Both Callie and Delia are hardworking wives‚ are victims of domestic abuse‚ and over
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"Sweat" Colloquial speech is used by many authors in order to give a sense of realism to their writing. In "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston‚ every character speaks in colloquial speech. This style of writing gives the reader a real sense of the South in a way no other style of writing can. Dialogue is how Hurston gets her point across using colloquial speech in writing her dialogue her dialogue. When Hurston uses colloquial speech in the story‚ she characterizes people who are poor black citizens
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us he gave a cow or mule or anything he could spare to help us (p.34).” Moving forward in time‚ the short story Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston describes a situation of domestic abuse in a long term relationship between a wife‚ Delia Jones‚ and her husband‚ Sykes Jones. Sykes enjoyed
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footsteps‚ rhythmic pounding of sledge hammers along a chain gang‚ and the loud beats of an anxious and overworked heart. This rhythm and repetition builds tension as Delia‚ the protagonist‚ finds within herself the strength necessary to survive and overcome the abuse with which she lives‚ and eventually conquering her abusive husband‚ Sykes‚ by allowing a snake’s venom to take over his blood stream‚ killing him. The rhythm and repetition found in the short story “Sweat” simulate the echoes of someone
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Something that really stood out to me the first time I was reading this story was that Delia was a working woman. She wasn’t a delicate flower stay at home mom‚ but she cleaned people’s clothes to earn her own money. Furthermore‚ what was even more surprising was that her husband was the one who was unemployed. She is basically wonder woman for the people reading this story in the 20’s. In the beginning of the story Delia almost made it
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greatly affected the actions and self-image of the main characters in both stories. The character‚ Delia Jones‚ in and the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper are both individuals that are greatly influenced by what their societies deemed as acceptable roles and behaviors for married women. However‚ they also challenged these notions in order to survive and overcome the hardships in their lives. In Sweat‚ Delia worked as a washwoman in order to provide for her family. In the early 1900s‚ most women in this
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In the stories written by Hurston‚ Faulkner‚ and O’Connor‚ many of the characters appear to be flawed; the main protagonists all have a distorted mental state. Southern novels often feature a type of grotesque theme. In “ Hairoglyphics in Faulkner’s " A Rose for Emily"/ Reading the Primal Trace “‚ authors Mary Arensberg and Sara E. Schyfter discuss the mental state of Miss Emily in “ A Rose for Emily “ by William Faulkner. The authors state‚ “ Incest between a father and daughter‚ the re-enactment
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