In another of her stories, Sykes takes up with Bertha and tries to scare his wife, the washerwoman Delia Jones, by bringing home a snake, but it bites him instead.
At the climax of a story by this author, the protagonist hides outside while a man looks for a match in the dark, then  lees for a Chinaberry tree a ter he cries out like a "maddened chimpanzee." This author wrote a story in which a man who always throws his pay under the door to his newly-wed wife  nds her in bed with the owner of an ice cream parlor named Otis D. Slemmons, who had impressed her with his fake gold coins. In another of her stories, Sykes takes up with Bertha and tries to scare his wife, the washerwoman Delia Jones, by bringing home a snake, but it bites him instead. This author of "The Gilded Six-Bits" and "Sweat" also wrote a novel set in Florida in which the protagonist's second husband is the mayor of Eatonville, Jody Starks. For 10 points, name this African-American woman who created Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
At the climax of a story by this author, the protagonist hides outside while a man looks for a match in the dark, then  lees for a Chinaberry tree a ter he cries out like a "maddened chimpanzee.
Zora Neale Hurston