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Zora Neale Hurston wrote Sweat in the early 1900’s. This story shows the extent of an African American women struggling in this time. Hurston died in a welfare home, she was poor and buried in an unmarked grave, this shows of how in the story the author is a lot like the character. The story takes place in Flordia. Delia Jones, the main character, is a washwoman who works very hard for her money while …

…the rattlesnake but they both turned on him. The theme of this story is “what goes around comes around.” Syke wronged Delia during his life and his rattlesnake, which he thought he had control over, wronged him by killing him. It showed that sometimes the only person you can count on for your strength is yourself. Delia was a strong women and that everything that she worked so hard and sweated over was for herself.