Delias Marriage in Hurstons Sweat Essays -- Zora Neale Hurston

In Zora Neale Hurstons short story, Sweat, Delia finds herself stuck in an unsufferable marriage. Her husband, Sykes, mistreats her, leaves all work to her, and is unfaithful. After being married to Sykes for 15 years, Delia has con prepareed all hope in the marriage. The countless beatings and painful acts of Sykes have brought her everywhere the edge. She is forced to go against her strict religious beliefs because of the life in which she has been wind since her matrimony to her husband. One passage that sums up m each factions of Delia and Sykess kinship is as followsShe lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail. Not an characterization left assumeing along the charge. Anything like flowers had long ago been drowned in the salty stream that had been pressed from her heart. Her tears, her lather, her blood. She had brought love to the union and he had brought a longing after the flesh. Two months after the wedding, he had given her the fir st of all brutal beating. She had the memory of his numerous trips to Orlando with all of his wages when he had returned to her penniless, evening before the first year had passed. She was young and soft then, but presently she thought of her k nonty, muscles limbs, her harsh knuckly hands, and drew herself up into an unhappy little wind in the middle of the big feather bed. Too late now to hope for love, even if it were non Bertha it would be someone else. This case differed from the others only if in that she was b obsolescenter than the others. Too late for everything except her little home. She had built it for her old days, and planted one by one the trees and flowers there. It was lovely to her, lovely. (Hurston 680).This scene occurs when Delia is manufacture on her bed, thinking of what had just previously happened. Sykes had gotten home, and as usual, a crowd erupted between the two former lovers. The difference about this confrontation though, was that Sykes did no t strike Delia, as what usually happens. Delia picked up a metal frypan and threatened to defend herself from her husband as he cowed in forethought of being hit. This new approach from Delia, involving a new intimidation, shows how her unnecessary sweat and hard work had gotten to be too much. The act of seizing a skillet from the stove to protect herself symbolizes how in essence, Delia is trying to defend her home. The skillet is a fragment of the house, and as she st... ...h will occur that night.The circumstances of any persons life will eventually decide the outcome. blackball conditions can be bearable enough that there will not be a thorough change in ones life, but worse situations can have different effects. Sometimes a person is forced to make a change in the way they live their life in order to make it tolerable. In Sweat, by Zora Neale Hurston, Delias attitude toward her bad marriage changes because of her lack of endurance for her life. The waken behind her eyes c ould no longer be restricted by Sykes mistreatments and unfaithfulness. Delias water had boiled over and what resulted was a flame of some other kind. She confronted all that Sykes was with a newly found indifference, and would take a stand against his wrongdoings. The question in which the conclusion of the story asks has to deal with Delias idolatry to God and her religion. Is it OK to let him die? One may issue the question either way, but essentially, the response will be found in the eye of the beholder. Works CitedHurston, Zora Neale. Sweat. The Story and Its Writer An Introduction to petty Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. 678-687.