“Everyday Use” is a short story written by Alice Walker. The story began with Maggie and Mama, who is waiting for Dee, Maggie’s older sister, and a man who Mama predicts they might be together arrival. Mama tells that Maggie is nervous and she bears with burn scar marks on her arms and legs, she feels envied by her older sister. Dee, who had a distasteful feeling of her family’s lifestyle, has attended school and now feels more like a superstar. The theme of the short story is about education, heritage, and materialism. Walker uses Mama as a first person narrator in the whole story. The narrarator thinks Dee does not like Maggie until she raised money for her to go school in Augusta. Mama tells the innocent side of Dee when she was younger
