How does the author use foreshadowing in Sweat?

Sykes's attack on the laundry brings about Delia's first assertion against him in fifteen years of marriage. When she grabs a heavy iron skillet from the stove, she is threatening her husband with a female object used for creation, in this case a cooking pot. Sykes responds by threatening her with the object of male creativity and violence with which he is most familiar, the bullwhip. The choices of these objects reveal that to Hurston, male creativity (the whip) exists only to injure and destroy; female creativity (the pot) can be used destructively but is intended primarily to be positive, that is, to cook and create a meal. Thus, women can use their creative power to defend themselves against the destruction that is the only intended use of male power. This scene acts as a foreshadowing of the couple' s climactic confrontation when Sykes brings home in a crate the satanic object of destruction, a snake.