Sweat by Zora Hurston

Summery
The story starts with Delia in a Florida kitchen beginning to wash closes when her husband of 15 years interrupts. Durring the story we see how her husband Sykes is and has been mentally and physically abusive to her and how the whole town knows and cant do anything about it. Through out the whole story Sykes throws around his affair with another woman, and how strong he is. At the end Delia finally defends her self. Sykes takes a snake that he caught and leaves it in a box outside the house to scare her. Finally at the end Delia enters the house and then finds the snake in the house. She flees outside and waits for Sykes to return. When he does return he cries out for her but she does not enter the house until daybreak and sees him on the ground all swollen from the rattle snake bites.

Comments
I think the story is pretty blunt and to the point. It shows the effects of abuse on a community. Delia was a beautiful woman who was in love then after the years of abuse had taken its toll on her. The whole town knew what was going on in the relationship and all they did was stand back while it was being flaunted on to them. Then when Delia tried to fight back he pushed back to show who was in power. Yet in the end he didn't have all the power cause who was the one who was crying out for who.