In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, presents us with the theme of individuals understanding there heritage and family past. To understand the theme and tell this story the author has presented us with different characters Dee and Maggie who have a real conflict because of their contrasting personalities and value systems. Due to the fact that our characters have contrasting personalities, this affects their values and what the quilt means to each of them. To begin, let's quickly look into the narrator of this story Mama. With Mama as the narrator we can see through her verbiage and how she speaks on the two daughters their differences physically but through her backstories and looks through time we see the differences in how the
