'Love And Hate In The Short Story Sweat'

In this chapter, we read many different short stories, poems, and plays that deals with love and hate in some way shape or form. We also so look at all aspects of relationships and the complexity they all share. This chapter deals with themes such as conformity, rebellion, culture and identity. I asked myself at the beginning of this “what really is the purpose of this chapter?” and by the end the answer was very clear, which is love and hate deal with is reality and they usual don’t happening induvial they happen at the same time, like many of the stories in this chapter.
One example would be the short story “Sweat”. “sweat” deals with a woman named Delia Jones trying overcome abuse from her husband Sykes Jones. “She had brought love to the union

and he had brought a longing after the flesh.” By this qoute from the story we realize that Delia truly has love for her husband yet she still is unhappy with her marriage (Hurston, 1926). Delia may even from the beginning hoped he'd change with time, but as we read he doesn’t. another qoute to ponit out their love and hate relationship would be a qoute from delia which states "Ah hates you, Sykes," she said calmly. "Ah hates you tuh de same degree dat Ah useter love yuh." (Hurston, 1926). this moment is also viewed as the turning point in the story because this is when Delia completely opens up and speaks whats on her mind to Sykes because she has had it up to this point and this moment also lets the reader know that she has hate and love for Skykes and she is just at her tiping point.
Another example would be the short story “the Storm”.

This story deals love and hate differently from “sweat”. “the Storm” is about A small boy, Bibi, and his father, Bobinôt, who are out during a major storm, and the wife Calixta worried about her family, but also commiting adultry with another married man named Alcée. The storm in this short story repersents the affair that accurs at the house and the guilt of Calixta during that time. The love and hate relationship comes into play when we see Calixta commiting adultry, and when she is with her husband and son at the end. Calixta hates being in the marriage she is in because she is not really in love with Bobinôt she only married him for his money which is why she continues to have the affair with Alcée. Even with Alcée we see the love and hate complex in his marriage to clarisse, we see that this this qoute “And the first free breath since her marriage seemed to restore the pleasant liberty of her maiden days. Devoted as she was to her husband, their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more than willing to forego for a while.” We see her to be pretty reluctant to stay away alittle longer due to her being unhappy in her marriage as

well.
In this chapter we see example after example of many love and hate relationships and how close to reality they are. The best part of reading this collection is that there is a lot of different illustrations of what that type of relationship looks like. I have truly enjoyed reading this chapter and the realism that was presented throughout the section and how it showed me people are complex but relationships are even more complex.