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1. Why does Delia stay up so much later on Sunday nights than on any other night of the week and how does Sykes find fault with this practice?

Delia's work as a washerwoman involves a constant and never-ending cycle of collecting, washing, returning, and picking up again and this cycle occurs on a weekly basis. Delia collects the soiled clothes on Saturdays when she drops off the clean clothes and then on Sunday nights after church, she stays up late to sort the dirty clothes and to soak the white clothes. This schedule saves her "almost a half day's start" (1) and makes her Monday morning more pleasant than it would otherwise be. Sykes attacks her practice of working on Sundays at all, saying that she is a hypocrite since she goes to church, but then comes home and proceeds to work on the Sabbath, a practice that is forbidden in the Bible.

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