Susan Gale once stated that, “You Don’t Realize Your Own Strength until Someone Tries to Take Advantage of Your Weaknesses” (Life Hack). Zora Neale Hurston, who was born on January 7, 1891 and she died January 28, 1960. Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South (Encyclopedia Britannica). The story “Sweat” is about a marriage between Delia and Sykes and the woman being the breadwinner that is not appreciated. Zora Neal Hurston wrote “Sweat” to remind us how women were often an undervalued and underappreciated minority in the 1920’s. In “Sweat” by Zora Neal Hurston, she uses symbolism and theme to show that women could not stand
