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In the short story Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston, the audience is met with the troubled African-American couple living in the south. She writes from a third person perspective using both omniscient point of view and dialect from the characters themselves. This middle aged couple is trying to come to grips with there dysfunctional relationship. Delia is the over worked washwomen that has little time to find sanity in her marriage. Sykes is the double timing over possessive male who brings the majority of the conflict to the story. The story takes place in the early to middle 1900’s when blacks weren’t really acknowledged as human beings by the white society. Sykes is a rather dull character that really doesn’t like his wife Delia. Sykes choice to poison his abused unappreciated partner leads to his own demise. From the start of the story we find out that Delia is a hard working women that works entirely too much. The description of her on the opening page causes the reader to sympathize for her and really not enjoy the presence of Sykes. “Just then something long, round, limp and black fell