“Sweat” The short story “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston is about a woman who seems stuck in an abusive relationship. However, I feel the underlying message of the story is female empowerment. Sykes, Delia’s husband, is abusive to her physically, verbally, and emotionally throughout their entire relationship. Sykes treats Delia with little to no respect and still expects her to take care of him and provide for him. Even through all the mistreatment and unhappiness, I feel Delia is an empowered character.
Lina shows her being headstrong by how demanding she is. More often than not, the NKVD would not give promised bread portions, in a case like that Lina would be willful to getting her deserved part. Lina and Kretzsky have a strained conversation. He tells Lina his story, a story composed of misery and heartache. Evidently, Lina truly felt bad for Kretzsky, for she told him she was sorry, and he said he was sorry about her mother.
Thesis Women were subject to discrimination due to man-kinds biased belief that men were above all women. Evidence Elizabeth Sprigs was an indentured servant who faced oppression. In a letter written to her father, she describes how she is treated by men, specifically her master. She is fed little to nothing and is beaten countless times. She describes the how women have been tied to lifeless bodies and given birth.
The author describes Elisa’s feeling as, “Everything goes right down into your fingertips. You watch your fingers work…” (p. 633). Once the tinker had left, Elisa’s mental stimulation and self-fulfillment had left with him too. It is clear that she is unsatisfied with the relationship she has with her husband. Before the headed out for dinner, Elisa started to dress nicer and look for feminine.
Not a man, of course. Back then men were viewed as superior because that’s all they were ever taught. “It takes a lot of dishes and a lot of washing up, for mum to build an athlete” (Fairy Liquid and the Olympics) this reinforces the idea that women do the household chores in service to the males of the house. The implication that housework is purely a woman’s work is completely unacceptable in today’s day and age where women are seen as strong and independent. The unequal distribution of domestic responsibilities has held women back for generations; it still today continues to hinder women’s progression in the work-place.
This shows that Della is willing to do anything to make her husband happy. Secondly she is caring with her money. She shows this when she ransacked the store for her husband’s chain, “She found it at last… it was a platinum fob chain simple and crate in design… she know that is must be Jims” (O.Henry106). This show that she want her husband to like his best. Della hair is not the most important thing to her her husband is.
This man treats his wife like the scum of the earth but at the end justice will be served. Delia, a skinny, nice hardworking lady, who has been washing clothes all her life, is fed up with the way her husband treats her. She has to have the clothes washed at a certain time for the white people she washes for. Every time Sykes comes home he criticizes how she keeps washing white people’s clothes as a result they argue about it constantly. He threatens to put his hands on her if she doesn’t stop washing the clothes in the house.
nastassia Response 9/10/2012 The story Sweat takes place somewhere in Florida , where the main characters are a women named Delia a women who washed clothes for white people and her husband named Sykes who was verbally and physically abusive , he loved to taunt her . He never spoke highly of her to his friends , he always insulted her and made comments about her weight . Delia on the other hand was a faithful wife and tried to deal with her situation the best way she knew how. Even though she knew he was cheating on her with a women named berths , Sykes would take Delia's money and spend it on bertha. He hated that she would bring the white peoples clothes into the house he would kick the pile
The character Lisa was being beaten every day since her engage with Blair. He was very controlling; she had to call him for every step she takes and every move she make he had to be posted. Her mother represented a male aspect in Lisa’s life this is because she was also controlling of who she marry. When Lisa had too much of the brutal beating she took matters into her own hands. Well basically she ran away from him to Madea house for safety.
They would argue and fight so much that we would just sit in our rooms and listen to the hustle and bustle of things being thrown down and knocked over by them. Even though they would fight and argue they would make up and when the weekend came it was the same thing all over again. As time progressed, my mother got tired of the struggling, arguing and fighting and she did not look back for almost five years. Later they reconciled and my father gave his life to the Lord and for several