In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” and Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” the two characters are tempted to seek revenge toward the antagonist in the stories. In “Sweat” Delia is an average housewife, but unfortunately; is in an abusive relationship with her husband named Sykes. Throughout the story, Sykes treats Delia horribly and toward the end of the story, Delia seeks revenge against her abusive husband. However, She ends up having regrets, for not intervening in the attack. Due to her regret Delia is a sympathetic character. The same kind of conflict affects the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado.” During the story the narrator, Montresor, wants to seek revenge against his friend…show more content… The revenge she seeks comes in the form of a snake that Sykes brought into their house, which ultimately ends up attacking him when the snake escapes from the box Sykes keeps it in. Upon realizing the snake has escaped from the box Delia faces an ethical decision being: should she let Sykes know of the snake’s escape. She takes a few moments to come to a decision, which is to not tell Sykes about the snake’s escape. While Sykes gets attacked by the snake Delia witnesses the entire ordeal. While bearing witness to the attack Delia has a change of heart about her decision. A quote from the story that best expresses her remorse is “All this Delia could see and hear from her place beneath the window, and it made her ill. She crept over to the four-o’clocks and stretched herself on the cool earth to recover”(Hurston 148). Due to Delia having a change of heart she is a sympathetic character because she feels guilt after not intervening in the attack. Delia was conflicted between saving Sykes or risk being attacked by the snake. Delia felt an immense amount of remorse that after witnessing the attack she grew ill and had to recover from it by lying near flowers just to recover from
