Delias Marriage in Hurstons Sweat Essays -- Zora Neale Hurston

In Zora Neale Hurstons short story, Sweat, Delia finds herself stuck in an unacceptable marriage. Her husband, Sykes, mistreats her, leaves all work to her, and is unfaithful. After being married to Sykes for 15 years, Delia has confused all hope in the marriage. The countless beatings and painful acts of Sykes have brought her all over the edge. She is forced to go against her strict religious beliefs because of the life in which she has been guide since her matrimony to her husband. One passage that sums up m any factions of Delia and Sykess kindred is as followsShe lay awake, gazing upon the debris that cluttered their matrimonial trail. Not an kitchen range left raiseing along the centering. Anything like flowers had long ago been drowned in the salty stream that had been pressed from her heart. Her tears, her sudation, 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 root brut al beating. She had the memory of his numerous trips to Orlando with all of his wages when he had returned to her penniless, even off before the first year had passed. She was young and soft then, but right off she thought of her k nonty, muscles limbs, her harsh knuckly hands, and drew herself up into an unhappy little goon in the middle of the big feather bed. Too late at one time to hope for love, even if it were non Bertha it would be someone else. This case differed from the others merely in that she was b sexagenarianer 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 deception on her bed, thinking of what had just previously happened. Sykes had gotten home, and as usual, a rouse erupted between the two former lovers. The difference about this confrontation though, was that Sykes did not strik e Delia, as what usually happens. Delia picked up a metal frypan and threatened to defend herself from her husband as he cowed in dread 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. disallow 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 set up behind her eyes could no longe r be restricted by Sykes mistreatments and unfaithfulness. Delias water had boiled over and what resulted was a flame of another(prenominal) kind. She confronted all that Sykes was with a newly effectuate indifference, and would take a stand against his wrongdoings. The question in which the conclusion of the story asks has to deal with Delias awe to God and her religion. Is it OK to let him die? One may response 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 rook Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. 678-687.