After reading chunk 1 of the story, describe the character Delia and her husband, Sykes.

Delia Jones is a hardworking but timid woman living in Florida. She provides for herself and her husband, Sykes, by working as a washwoman for white people. She holds tight to her Christian beliefs, in which she takes great solace in her difficult life. She even changed the church that she attends so that she could worship in peace apart from her husband.

Sykes is a shameless leech. He abuses his wife physically and emotionally.