Finally Delia lets her husband die, she doesn't even try to save him. She could've done something to help him, maybe if she saved him he’d treat her right. Of course the chances of him treating her right after saving him would've been very slim. Nevertheless the moment she saw Sykes dying on the ground, she realized that she was free. She wont have to go through him abusing and disrespecting her anymore. She wont be blamed for his death anyway, Sykes own decisions had to do with his downfall. Delia believed in karma, after all she did say, “whatever goes over the Devil's back, is got to come under his belly. Sometime or ruther, Sykes, like everybody else, is gointer reap his sowing”(Hurston 3). Sykes was cruel to Delia physically and mentally,
