Men and women have not always had the same rights, just as African Americans and Caucasians have not had them. Zora Neale Hurston is the author of "Sweat" and a prominent African American woman who was prominent in the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston grew up in Florida between the 1890s and early 1900s, a time when racism and sexism were at their peak. Because sexism and racism influenced Hurston while she was growing up, "Sweat" is a feminist tale told from her point of view. Her short story "Sweat" tells the story of Delia, a laundress in Florida, and her abusive, adulterous husband Sykes. “Sweat” is the story of their marriage and how karma comes back to take a person. If you treat someone badly, something bad will happen to you that is an ungrateful and cheating husband does not work for a living and uses his wife's hard earned money for his mistress. The short English literature story "Sweat", written by Zora Neale Hurston, shows Sykes as the husband of the protagonist Delia "Sweat" which exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relationship to language and the literary possibilities of black