For example, Mrs. Carpenter only fed him muck that was cold and awful. He snuck around the house and found a box of jelly powder. He would get beaten when he broke a bowl. “She grabbed me by the hair and yanked me from the chair. She punched me in the side of the head and threw me to the floor.
He physically and mentally abuses Delia, takes her income while failing to make his own, and has an affair on the side. Despite being out of work, for three months he has paid his mistress Bertha's rent. Sykes brings negativity to his relationship with Delia, and tries to poison her with a rattlesnake. Tired of Delia and seeking out freedom with his "portly" mistress Bertha, Sykes hatches a plan to poison Delia by planting a rattlesnake in her washing clothes, but the plan backfires after he is fatally bitten in the neck. After Sykes is bitten in the neck by the rattlesnake, Delia sits under a chinaberry tree while hearing the distant moaning and wailing of Sykes.
There were many filthy things about this lady some of them being uncleaned fingernails with dirt all through them and bits of breakfast always all over her aprons. Mrs Pratchett was so disrespectful to Dahl and his friends, one day they found a dead mouse and decided to scare Mrs Pratchett with it. This is something Dahl regrets doing and he will never forget this horrible deed. Mrs Pratchett demanded to his school principal (Mr Coombes) that Dahl and his friends were to be beaten with a cane several times. This is why Mrs Pratchett was portrayed as an ogre by Dahl.
After a string of snakes being found becomes strangely to frequent, Nelson, the family helper, believes he is to be the next victim. In order to help calm him down, the Price sisters come up with a plan to catch who is planting these snakes. The plan is to spread ash around to the chicken coup, where Nelson lives, to see the footprints of the guilty. In the morning, they checked their trap and it was sprung. Footprints that matches the local witch but a snake was hiding in the shadows.
Also, she has to apologize to her husband even though she doesn't do anything wrong. In the end of the story, Mrs. Hayashi can only stand aside the window, watching her husband”smashing the picture, glass and all”, doing nothing. This again, shows that women has no control over things, Mr. Hayashi has the power to crush Mrs. Hayashi dream(symbolized by the picture). Also, Rosie often “picks tomatoes slower than Jesus does”, this shows that women are also physically weaker than men. In “Seventeen Syllables”, women are protrayed to be both mentally and physically weaker than men.
She fixed him supper one night and he completely refused it, “While she watched him he rose from the bed and took the tray and carried it to the corner and turned it upside down, dumping the dishes and food and all onto the floor” (154-155). When he was fourteen, his profound hatred of women was shown when he, partly unconscious of what he was doing, beat a girl almost to death: “He kicked her hard, kicking into and through a choked wail of surprise and fear. She began to scream, he jerking her up, clutching her by the arm, hitting at her with wide, wild blows, striking at the voice perhaps, feeling her flesh anyway, enclosed by the womanshenegro and the haste” (156-157). When he was eighteen, he met Bobbie and started having a relationship with her, until he found out it was all a lie and he came to hate her too. This was the first
'; this is only one example of the abuse in Zora Neale Hurston's short story, 'Sweat'. Spousal abuse is a very common issue in today's society. Hurston represents this form of abuse through the way the husband talks to his wife and the way he treats her.    Delia is a hard-working woman who is very obedient and faithful to her husband, Sykes. Hy yt hThrough harsh words, he cuts her down about her work of washing white folks clothes and her looks saying that he 'hates skinny woman';. Delia's appearance resembles her hard work, with 'knuckly hands'; from using the washboard.
Jackie has a good combination of the all the ingredients a good mother needs. Jackie Flaherty is a mother of two and can be seen as a typical Jersey mom because she is a “bad ass” and she has so much love in her heart that she would do anything for anyone. Kyle is a kid she just met and she agreed to take him in under her roof knowing nothing about him. Jackie even states multiple times that she is going to punch Kyle mom when she gets the chance. This shows the immediate and infinite love that Jackie shows towards people.
Mary Maloney is not able to judge right from wrong as she is blocking out reality, which results in her being temporarily insane. Second, she does not have to feign her shock for her husband’s death. As Mary sees her husband lying lifeless, “All the old love and longing for him welled up inside her, and she ran over to him, knelt down beside him and began to cry her heart out. It was easy. No acting was necessary” (13).
The admiration everyone held for the garden shows what women were capable of doing at those time—that they never gave up. Another example where Walker praises women is in the essay "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self." In this beautiful piece of writing, she describes a childhood experience she had when her brother shot her with a BB gun and wounded her eye; this bought down her self-esteem and destroyed her confidence. At the end, however, Walker opens up her eyes and sees that she truly is beautiful no matter what. Her purpose is to show that every woman is beautiful