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A 5 page paper which examines the good and evil seen in Zora Neale Hurston’s story “Sweat.” No additional sources cited.
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is an African American woman and works hard and long, working herself to the bone, in order to survive and live nobly. She is a religious woman and a woman
who is humble and essentially very righteous because of her hard work and humility. Her character is opposed by her husband, Sykes, who is anything but humble or righteous or
hardworking. The characters themselves speak of the symbolic nature of good and evil in Hurstons story. And, aside from each character, the story that unfolds offers many symbolic inferences about
good and evil as well. The following paper discusses how one can see these inferences and uses of imagery throughout the story as it relates to good and evil.
Sweat From the beginning we see her as a very organized and religious individual. It is Sunday and she has received all of
her laundry that she is to do and she sets them up to be ready for Mondays washing. She is ahead of things, and yet obviously will not really do
the work on a Sunday because it is the day of rest. So, while she does not rest completely, she does not truly work. Then we are presented with her
husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolically see how he is likely associated
with Satan and the snakes shape that the Devil took. She tells him that he scared her and he shouldnt scare her because she was afraid of snakes. He simply
laughs and tells her "Thats how come Ah done it" (Hurston 955). In this opening we see crisp whites that symbolize the hard work and the simple life of
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