Dee’s aspect on life is confronted with conflicts that sum around who she was before, thus her mother and Maggie will be interfering with her goals in life as well as theirs. People in the world try to find a reason of who and what they are, being said Dee never appreciated who she is an African American. Dee’s emotions are jumbled when see left the rural areas of Georgia to go to college. According to the “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker she is concerned that her mother was holding her back and not knowing who she could really be, It states “And Dee, I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of: a look of red-hot brick chimney. Why don’t you dance around the ashes? I’d wanted to ask her. She had hated the house
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“I Could not bear it longer, being named after the people who oppress me” (4). Dee’s conflicts evolve to misunderstand her culture, her own name represented something greater. Her own life was to change her passed, true Dee did not want to entitle herself to a country that blamed her for wrong’s society but changing the names of a person’s name does not erase the past. Dee wanted to escape this “world” she once roamed therefore, her emotions on her new name tend to illustrate her mother the idea she is not a part of her family. In the passage “Everyday use”, the new name for Dee is representing her change between heritage of being “free”. For Dee her conflict is the lack of acceptance. Dee could not agree the fact that her own family and people were slaved, thus she believes hating her culture is the best was to ignore the fact she (family tree) were once treated brutally. Maggie throughout the passage deals with a situation of being put down and not of her own sister, but by her own self. According to the story Alice Walker points out conflicts on Maggie’s view, “She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money passes her. She will marry John Thomas who has mossy teeth and an earnest face)”
“I Could not bear it longer, being named after the people who oppress me” (4). Dee’s conflicts evolve to misunderstand her culture, her own name represented something greater. Her own life was to change her passed, true Dee did not want to entitle herself to a country that blamed her for wrong’s society but changing the names of a person’s name does not erase the past. Dee wanted to escape this “world” she once roamed therefore, her emotions on her new name tend to illustrate her mother the idea she is not a part of her family. In the passage “Everyday use”, the new name for Dee is representing her change between heritage of being “free”. For Dee her conflict is the lack of acceptance. Dee could not agree the fact that her own family and people were slaved, thus she believes hating her culture is the best was to ignore the fact she (family tree) were once treated brutally. Maggie throughout the passage deals with a situation of being put down and not of her own sister, but by her own self. According to the story Alice Walker points out conflicts on Maggie’s view, “She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money passes her. She will marry John Thomas who has mossy teeth and an earnest face)”