Sweat, Edgar Diaz

Sykes is honestly a disgrace of a man. He is married to the main character Delia who is a hardworking and respectable woman. Delia does all the chores and is the person who makes the money. It is revealed that Sykes has gazed upon a new women named Bertha for quite some time and gets joy in letting his wife see since he does not care about her and always complains about " white people" clothes that Delia washes. One day she gets very sick of all his crap and decides to blow up all the anger and frustration she has towards Sykes since it has always just been built up and bottled.  "It cowed him and he did not strike her as he usually did " clearly states that he is very abusive towards Delia and it was surprising to see her rebellious action towards him. After all the beatings he would give her the towns people would talk about how she was once beautiful and it should be a crime to have a no good man like Sykes around. The coward one day decides to bring a rattlesnake and get it to kill Delia but no matter how much he would want it to happen, it always failed. One day the snake was freed and as Sykes goes into the kitchen and accidentally knocks a pot lid off the snake comes from underneath the stove and delivers his just punishment while Sweet and harmless Delia watches him die slowly, trembling with fear as she had never heard nor seen Sykes the way she did. I honestly believe she could have done something to save him but then again he deserved punishment. What goes around comes around