Symbolism In Sweat By Zora Neale Hurston

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In Zora Neale Hurston's story, "Sweat" she introduced the theme that actions come back to you and that your relationships define you. Hurston uses alliteration and symbolism to make these ideas stand out. In the story, Delia is a woman dealing with an abusive husband named Sykes. "Two months after the wedding, he had given her the first brutal beating.” Since then they had been married for 15 years and the abuse has continued. One day Sykes brings home a snake, Delias worst fear. After a huge fight consisting of one of the first times Delia stands up for her herself, Sykes lets the snake lose in the house, hungry, intentionally to scare Delia. In the end she escapes the house and when Sykes comes home from cheating on his wife, he is bit by