Response Paper For “Sweat”

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clearly be seen through the addition of the other woman in Sykes life. What happens to her seems truthful and real which directs the reader’s expected reaction to the story.
In 1926 the deep south was a place of racial division and gross inequality. It was 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. The white clothes Delia washes are symbolic of her character. White represents her integrity and saintly tendencies as she humbly tolerates Sykes torment. The laundry itself represents the “artistic object” created by Delia. In the basket, ...

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