Zora Neale Hurston Sweat

The short story ‘’Sweat’’ by Zora Neale Hurston Is based on the theme of a broken relationship that describes Delia’s fifteen years of marriage struggles to her husband Sykes. During the course of fifteen years relationship Delia and Skype fought all the time, slept and ate in silence which symbolize a broken relationship. Skye is cheating with another woman and spending Delia’s hard earned working money on his mistress to the point he wants Delia to leave their matrimonial home so that he can move in with his mistress. Skye in this relationship clearly lack respect for his wife Delia and still has a sense of entitlement even though he is unemployed, but physically and emotionally abuse his wife. Delia on the other hand is resilience strong obedient wife who finds peace and love in her religion to comfort her broken and failed marriage. At the end the resilience of Delia throughout her fifteen years of marriage serves as poetic justice, that God those not forget the faithful, when her husband Skye was bitten by the snake that he used to torment her over the course of their marriage. Has Delia sit and watched Sykes grunt in pain magnifier

First we are introduced to the Missie May Banks and her husband Joe to what seem a perfect marriage relationship, until the introduction of the flashy and flamboyant Slemmons, who threaten to ruin everything through the course of his actions. This play reflects the good and the bad of relationship in general involving American couples. Zora Neale Hurston was able to show the importance in a relationship which is love and what is not important which money is. In the beginning of Missie and Joe reflect a very positive relationship that influence each other that shows a playful and easy way of interacting with each other until the arrival of Joe which reflect a negatively affected their communication and seriously test their