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Response Paper for “Sweat”
The short story “Sweat” is a portrayal of a woman who must endure terrible hardships to find a small bit of peace in her life. The main character, Delia Jones survives years of her husband’s cruel psychological and physical treatment in a community that does nothing to help her. Fortunately Sykes, her husband is killed by a rattlesnake when his cruel joke abruptly turns on him. Delia plays ....
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.... a time that black men and women, although by law free, were not even considered to be human beings in the eyes of our country’s elite class. It was a time when black men were regularly sentenced to death for crimes against white people, but left to provide their own justice within the black community. A time of segregation, a time of hatred, this was the deep south in 1926 and, this is the setting of “Sweat”.
Certain objects throughout the story suggest the influence of symbolization. ....
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