Verbal Abuse In Delia Jones's Short Story 'Sweat'

Verbal abuse is the most common abuse women face in their relationships without realized it and is easier to verbally abuse someone without people outside knowing. In the short story “Sweat” Delia Jones overcame the hardships of her abusive husband Sykes. Sykes did just abuse Delia once or twice but several times. The abuse being after her husband took her horse and buckboard and carried a big whip that looks a snake which scary her. He did seem concerned about her feeling and when Delia brought some of her work homes, Sykes was anger and started yelling at her for bringing white folks clothes in his house also kick all of her clothes together again. Sykes feel a little threatened because of that Delia now is the sole provider of the house, …show more content…
Similarly, another woman in Zora's work standing up against verbal abuses was Janie, trying to find love Janie Crawford in “ Their eyes were watching god.” faces many cases of abuse by men in her relationships but survive through all of them. As a young girl, her grandmother forced her to married Logan (killers) who only showed her anger and frustration after getting married because Janie was not worshiping him for the 60 acres of land he gets and Janie resisted his attempting to command her. With that Janie also learned an important thing about love, love as she experiences on the blossoming pear tree something doesn't exist in married and married does not lead to love like a grandma told her …show more content…
In this relationship, Janie had to silence herself because Joe sees women without intelligence, voices, or power just cause they are women. Janie suffered a lot from this because She had to cover her hair in the store, Joe was afraid that another man might touch it or admire it and a man will take her from him just like he did when Janie was married to Logan killings, this showed Janie that she has no power also the no matter what Joe wants is on both of them interest she must do it willing or be forced.the people in the town who came the store couldn't help but noticed how badly Joe treat Janie, he (horrible) be here to chat or play checker on the store porch with the porches sitters. The moment Joe became a major of Eatonville Janie started feeling isolated from everybody even her husband Joe was so busy running the town rather than showing little appreciations to her wife and the townspeople distance themselves because she was the wife of a very powerful man. Very time Janie made a little mistake in the store especially about the post office he would verbally abuse in front of the porches sitters, but they never said anything about how wrong this was in front of Joe because everyone feared