Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston takes a look into the secrecies and struggles of marriage, especially in the mids when marriage had somewhat different meaning than it does today.
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When Skyes is out with Bertha, he tells her that when he gets ride [rid] of Delia, that she can have anything in the house or in the whole town. Hurston intentionally gives up limited background information so she can fully demonstrate the conflict at hand.