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What Is The Use Of The Snake In Sweat By Zora Neale Hurston

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The short story Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston, framed the life of a woman named Delia and her husband Sykes. The two main characters had an abusive marriage and with there bullheaded characteristic it brought upon Sykes actions to cheat and bring in a snake to break Delias stubbornness and leave the house, so Skye can weide a new woman twice the size of her. With every prode of Sykes snake Delia digs her heal in deeper not giving in to fleeing the home she bought and paid for on her own. In the end Sykes got his just-deserts when he placed the snake in Delia's laundry basket to attempt one last strike, the snake turns on him and kills him while Delia watches from the safe place outside. Hurston uses the snake both literally and symbolically
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