Bertha In The Phenomenal Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat
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In between, in the short story of “Sweat” written the Phenomenal Zora Neale Hurston there was a silence character named “Bertha”. Hurston depicted Bertha as the other women to Delia’s troublesome relationship with her husband Sikes. Even though Bertha is a silence character throughout the short story. She holds an important key role in the novel. Particularly, in the story the love triangle relationship can be tie in with slavery. When our African men had more one women as their mistress. And it still exist to today to where we have cheating men. Furthermore, Sikes had so much authority over the towns people, that the author states that “Sykes reminding Bertha that this was his town and she could have it if she wanted it”. (1036) Also Hurston