Character Analysis of Sykes

Sweat still brings to mind the tend of Eden. Maybe It Is the title, Sweat, that brings to mind multiplication 319, By the sweat of thy brow shall thou eat Or It might be the snake that makes it reflect the Biblical Fall. It is not a mirror image of course. Delia Is not Eve, and Sykes is not Adam. In fact, Sykes reckons more akin the serpent. Sykes is a callous, brutal, vain, and worthless gay. Sykes is an insensitive human being who does not care ab erupt(predicate) Delis feelings.For example, Sykes knows that snakes terrify Delia and yet he takes great pleasure in utilise this fear against her. He throws his bull whip at her knowing that she go forth hypothesize It Is a snake. When she con earliers him saying that he knew that It would scare her he says. dustup Ah know It Thats how come Ah make it. If you such a big fool data you got to acquire a fit over a basis worm or string, Ah dont Kerr how bad Ah seeker you. (353) Sykes is so callous towards his wife and her fear of snakes that he catches a rattlesnake and brings it home in a box as a gift.When she demands that he take the snake away, he tells her, A whole standardized Ah Kerr bout how you feels Inside uh out. Data snake Alan going no damn heehaw till Ah gist ready UHF Im HTH go (358). He counterbalance puts the rattler in her clothes hamper while she Is at church on Sunday, knowing that when she gets home from church she will sort out her clothes as she does every Sunday night. Sykes is not a man he is a brutal bully who is shocked by anyone standing(a) up to him. When Delia stands up to him after meekly taking his abuse for cardinal years, he does not know how to take it.It cowed him and he did not soak up her as he usually did (354). Sykes was stunned by Della standing up to him, and as the bully he was, he backed down and left. During the term period covered by the story, Sykes never actually hits Della. He proficient threatens to. Hurst tells the referee that Sykes has beat en Della for fifteen years, and the men sitting on the front porch of Joe Slackers store also comment on how Delia used to be bewitching before she married Sykes. Elijah Mostly even tells the other men, He done beat huh enough HTH eradicate three women, let lone exchange they kooks (355).At this point, the mens talk turns from Delia to Sykes, and they talk about his arrogance. From this discussion, the reader learns that Sykes Is vain. He illus. originate uh overbearing analog, but since data white Oman from up North done machine-accessible IM how to run a automobile, he done got too biggest to live?an we ought kill IM, Old Man Anderson advises (355). In addition to the conversation between the men, the reader can also tell that Sykes thinks that he is superior from the way that he speaks to the other men.After Sykes catches the rattlesnake and brings it home, the people from the village begin asking him questions like how he did he catch it. Maam a snake cheat an knows how TU handle me. Sykes tells Thomas (357). When Walt suggests that he should kill the rattlesnake, Sykes tells him, New, Walt, VII Jess dont understand loony toons diamond basks lake ad (357). While Sykes may think that he is better than the other men, they think that he is worthless. When the men on the porch of Joe Clacks store see Delia delivering the laundry that she has washed, JoeLindsey comments on how dependable Delia is and how hard she works. Moss agrees saying, She better if she wanted eat. Sykes Jones ant with De shot an grind honor about him. He ant fit HTH carry sense HTH a bear (355). Joe Clark agrees that Sykes is worthless, but he tells the men, Taint no law on earth data kin make a man be decent if it ant in IM (355). It is Sykes callousness, brutality, and vanity that make him worthless. His insensitiveness to Delia whose blood, sweat, and tears have fed and provided for him that makes him worse than useless to her.The brutal beatings he eave her have destroyed h er beauty, and his constant affairs have made their marriage meaningless. His pride in being a snake charmer backfires on him in the end, when the snake he placed in Delis laundry basket bites and kills him. Sykes is callous, brutal, vain and worthless and destroys any chance that he might have had in making the home he shared with Delia anything like the Garden of Eden. He has been the cause of his own fall by catching a rattlesnake and bringing it home. While Delia is not Eve, and Sykes is not Adam, their story does seem to parallel the Biblical Fall.