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decision to open with the "bull whip " scene contribute to the overall meaning of the story

Zora Neale Hurston uses the "bullwhip" scene as introduction to resume and portrait to the reader that the marriage that we are reading of, is an abusive, oppressive and a violent one. A marriage where she also has to work extra to receive mistreatments.