t it seemed ro me thar when a narion goes ro warir rnust have reasonable confidence in the jr-rstice and imperative of irscause. You can't fix your misrakes. Once people are dead, you canr makerhern undea
War comes with casualties, once you cause them you can’t take them back
Just then Delia drove past on her way home, as Sykes was ordering magnificently for Bertha. It pleased him for Delia to see. "Git whutsoever yo' heart desires, Honey. Wait a minute, Joe. Give huh two bottles uh strawberry soda-water, uh quart uh parched ground-peas, an' a block uh chewin' g
Sykes demands people around and Delia caught him in the act of trying to get a woman
Delia works so hard ovah dat washtub she reckon everything on de place taste lak sweat an' soapsuds. Ah jus' wisht Ah'd a' caught 'im 'dere! Ah'd a' made his hips ketch on fiah down dat shell road
Everyone knows how hard Delia works, Sykes is the only one that doesn’t respect it
Aw, she's fat, thass how come. He's allus been crazy 'bout fat women,"
Men in the town have something against fat woman
Did Ah tell yuh'bout him come sidlin' roun' mah wife--bringin' her a basket uh pecans outa his yard fuh a present? Yessir, mah wife! She tol' him tuh take 'em right straight back hom
Sykes isn’t really liked by many, and was basically caught cheating
Too late nowto hope for love, even if it were not Bertha it would be someone else
Sykes never showed her love so she doesn’t believe in it
She was young and soft then, but now she thought of her knotty, muscled limbs, her harsh knuckly hands
She feels like she’s too strong and independent to be treated the way she was treated