An Analysis Of Alice Walker's Everyday Use

The story would change if Maggie would tell the story. Her sister Dee, the one who went to college would be different from the way they grew up. From Maggie’s point of view, she would see a perspective of Dee in which she is self-centered and different from both her & her mom. Her mom would be her role model in which the both have similar living style in which Maggie sees in herself. Maggie realize that her sister is the completely opposite, in which she sees that she prefers the world over her heritage. Maggie see her sister and her mom as a role model for herself in the future and wants what’s best for her. In my opinion, if Maggie told her point of view during the story we would think of Dee’s character different then her mother and herself. Dee would be a self-centered sister that doesn’t respect the choice that her mother made. Maggie would’ve seen her as the child who separated them self from the family. "When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet."(7) Maggie’s mom would see that she didn’t have to put up with Dee as she kept on growing older. Maggie would have these feelings towards Dee but she still loved her as her sister. …show more content…
Maggie does feel like she does stuff the same way her mom does because they’re closer to each other. Maggie felt like she was the more appreciative child. Maggie probably wouldn’t have cared about those quilts and would of gave them to Dee because she was more of a humble person. “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” she said. “She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.” (6) The mom prefers that Maggie keeps the quilts that her grandma used to own then to give it to Dee to hang up on the wall. She felt like she didn’t understand why Dee wanted these quilts instead of the Wangero she offered when going to