On "The Gilded Six-Bits," Missie's infidelity test the strength of the marriage with her husband Joe, a marriage which utltimately weathers the storm. The marriage in " The Gilded Six-Bits" is spared because, despite Hurston's harships in her own marriages, she saw marriage as an important institution capable of providing possibilities in life. There are four main characters involved in this short story: Missie May, her husband Joe, Otis D. Slemmons, and the store clerk at the market. The story takes place in Eatonville, Florida, a southern, black working class town which looked to the payroll...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... decided to leave him. Janie's second relationship was a little better than her first one but still had some problems. This relationship was with Joe Starks. Janie called him Jody for short. The two of them met when Joe walked by Logan Killicks house. This relationship is one of control. It started when Jody became mayor of the town of Eatonville. During ... one of Jody's speeches, the crowd asks, "And now we"ll listen tuh uh few words uh encouragement from Mrs. Mayor Starks." (Hurston 43) While the crowd applauded, Jody cut them short and said, "Thank yuh fuh yo" compliments, but mah wi...

• Word Count: 740
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... of Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" is a short story overflowing with moral and religious parallels. This story is about Delia an African American working woman in the Deep South and how she clings to her faith in God to see her through the hardships caused by her unfaithful and abusive husband. Throughout this story there is ... faith in God. Delia has spiritual strength which overcomes her husband's abusive attitude in the end. In the beginning of the story, Sykes throws his bull whip at Delia. The whip can easily be initially mistaken for a snake, which foresh...

• Word Count: 598
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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 ... her. A great terror took hold of her. . . . Then she saw it was the big bull whip her husband liked to carry when he drove."(Pg.568 Hurston) This really puts a bad feeling into the eyes of the reader. To understand why someone would want to harm or scare a loved one creates conflict. Delia wasn't ... Ah done brung you somethin"! She nearly fell upon the box in her stumbling, and when she...

• Word Count: 751
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School