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Wow! What wise insight you have provided with terrific textual evidence which points to the underlying biblical allusion I did not initially pick up on. To answer your second answer, my observations lead me to agree with the latter of the answers. Sykes exclaim, "Ah done tole you time and again to keep them white folk' clothes outa dis house" (Hurston 564). The context of the story puts Hurston's writing during a time of infamous oppression against the African American community. Therefor, Hurston evokes Jesus' act of washing of the sins of the world as she washes the clothes of those that gone against her. Like wise, while our sins are against Christ, he still served us by washing our eternal garments white like the clothes Delia prepares.
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