Changing Your Identity For Others Can choices we make and some things that we value in life change our identity? In Alice Walker’s short story, Everyday Use, she shows that the answer is yes. Two of the central characters, Mama and Dee, her daughter, undergo changes throughout the story. Mama didn't seem to mind the way she was living, she just accepted it. Dee says the tension between black nationalists and African Americans who are still living in rural areas as an epidemic. Without a doubt the world seems to revolve around Dee. In the beginning Mama says “...her sister has held life in the palm of one hand, that ‘no’ is a word the world never learned to say to her.” page 7. She also says that Dee “watched the last dingy gray board of
