Everyday Use By Alice Walker Analysis

“Everyday Use”

The story “Everyday Use” talks about a family that isn’t rich but poor. This story was written through a mother’s eyes. A mother of two daughters, one of them named Dee was able to go to college in the city while her mother didn’t have education, as the other daughter named, Maggie who wasn’t beauty like her sister, Dee. The major conflict in the story was who was going preserve the family heritage witch were the quilts. Showing the difference and same between the two daughters.

Dee was a girl who liked pretty things, and got her educated. Dee’s mother got the money by raising money and church. Dee was lighter and with nice hair and fuller figure comparing to Maggie. While she was going to school, she started using big confusing words towards her family to make them feel like …show more content…
She took a picture of the house having her family sitting in the front of the house. When she showed that she strongly dislike about her house and where her came from. The same night, Dee came in rifting through her mother’s things. Dee grabbing the quilts from mother’s box and ask her mother if she could take them with her. Dee’s mother refused, saying to pick the other ones’ instead and saying that it supposed to go to Maggie. She also tried to reason her but Dee started throwing a fit. Maggie comes into the room to see the argument going on with her sister and mother. Maggie says, “She can have them, Mama.” Maggie’s mother realized that she was acting, “like somebody used to never winning anything or having anything reserved for her.” Before dragging her to take a seat as she took the quilts from Dee’s arms and put them in Maggie. Their mother decides Maggie would be the one who will preserve the family heritage. The family heritage which were the quilt with clothes that belonged to their