Week 12 Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston

This story was powerful in showing the hard life that Delia lived everyday with her deadbeat husband. The dialect really helped me get a better sense of the life she was living everyday. She was a woman who worked so hard everyday, to survive and support her husband who had no respect for her. He abused he with words and her fears of snakes, just so he could receive a laugh from it. She would bring her work home with her to get ahead and he would walk his dirty feet all over the clothes she had to wash. She was a very religious woman and that is one reason I feel she did not leave her husband. The other men in the town gave her respect, but when it came to her own husband he could care less. The snake appeared in the story again and scared Delia. She was able to escape but realized that the snake he husband put there to scare her scared him. He died from the snake and she was now able to begin her life for herself and explore her community around her that she did not know before. Her husband tried to scare his wife and it came back to end his life. This story showed the readers that you will be rewarded for the hard work you have done. I don't think that she wanted her husband dead, but now she was able to not live in fear and take the abuse her husband always gave her.