In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is a story about tension among two sisters and their mother working to bring them together. The marginalized elements of oppression, tradition and cultural tensions. The oppression in the story is how Dee treats her sister Maggie. She treats as though she is an imbecile. Dee wanted to take quilts from the home and felt that she would take better care of them than Maggie. Mama told her that the quilts were for day use as a tradition to the family. Mama taught Maggie to make quilts as she had been taught, continuing the oral tradition and passing it to the future generations. This is also important with Dee’s name, as Mama shares that she has the name of her grandmother and also …show more content…
This story meets the elements of postmodernism with the parodies, abandon verisimilitude and consumer culture. Pynchon utilizes the parody from the bible as Castillo and Auden lives in Eden, a space they have created. He also use the bible parody for the bird that Castillo is attempting to resurrect in three days. The culture of that time was that the world was ending and Meatball lived as such. Hence hosting the lease-breaking party. Callisto and Auden lived in an alternative world within their apartment, this is abandoned