In the story Everyday Use written by Alice Walker, that shows her readers the history and culture of African Americans. In this short story, it shows you the family’s heritage and how the mother, who appears to be a single parent, which has raised two daughters, which one was named Maggie which had scars due the family’s first house was burned down.Dee was the other daughter that left home to get an education viewed the family heritage a little different. With there being many elements of this story, the symbols of this short story are interesting to me. The first one that is very significant to the story is the mother. The mother describes herself as “a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands“(Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). She can
