When describing Black men, Angie stone wrote, “He is my King, He is my one…” along with an entire anthem dedicated to her love of the Black man. This sentiment of Black women supporting and loving Black men in perfect harmony is one that a reader would expect to be common amongst all types of Black literature; however, that is not the case. In Zora Neale Hurston’s, Sweat, the reader can see what can be described as a tumultuous relationship between a Black man and a Black woman. Likewise, the same can be said about the Breedloves in Toni Morrison’s, The Bluest Eye. In both pieces of literature, the reader is presented with a married couple whose relationship is not one where Stone's sentiments are shared. In The Bluest Eye, the reader sees the abusive, drunken Cholly married to the convoluted Pauline Breedlove. The Breedloves do not conform to…show more content… Cholly’s type of abuse was simple; he fought Pauline. “Cholly and Mrs. Breedlove fought each other with a darkly brutal formalism that was paralleled only by their lovemaking” (43). “He fought her the way a coward fights a man—with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth” (43). However, Pauline would fight back; she was not completely defenseless. Although Pauline would fight back, the physical fighting amongst domestic partners is still considered abuse. Sykes, on the other hand, subjects Delia to emotional abuse. Sykes plays with Delia’s emotions because he knows that he can and that Delia has no intentions of going anywhere any time soon. The reader could almost infer that Sykes enjoys putting Delia down. Sykes speaks disdainfully of Delia when he says, “Ah'm so tired of you Ah don't know whut to do. Gawd! how Ah hates skinny wimmen” (2). Sykes is constantly telling Delia how she is not good enough, or what he wants. Furthermore, he torments her by playing with her fear of snakes. Once again, the reader is exposed to the theme of men being no
