Sweat is a short story written by Zora Neale Hurston. Delia is a character of this story who is a washer woman and she worked for long hours in a small town. Her husband Sykes does not work. In this story she focuses on the lives of real African Americans, white culture is present in the story only indirectly, as represented by Delia's Laundry. Laundry was the symbol of white people she worked for.
