Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat"

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This paper discusses the feminist approach to Hurston's short story, which is related to the cruel and dominating male authority that she found in her own life. The author points out that, although Hurston reflects in her own life a woman that is liberated from these troubles, in the character of Delia, she invariably reflects her own failed marriages. The paper relates that the crucial interrelationship of Delia and Hurston reflect their similarities of lifestyle in a realistic experiential narrative the reflects the plight of women to find equality in love.

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"This study examines how the life of Zora Neale Hurston reflects upon her literary writings within her story "Sweat." By realizing the mental and physical abuse that Hurston survived with her own marriages, Hurston reflects a feminist mode of thought in "Sweat", relating to how she had experienced men within her own life. By counteracting the dominating influence of men within her biography, Hurston reflects her own aspirations and feminist freedoms within the misogynist environment that resides in this story. The life of Hurston was one that was troubled "by a great many patriarchal and dominating men throughout her lifetime." (Bloom p.155) Hurston was extremely aware of the nature of violent men and their abusive ways."

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