Maggie In The Short Story 'Everyday Use' By Alice Walker

“Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker is a short story roughly about an unsuccessful household who scuffles to make things right and in order. The story says that Maggie and Dee’s mother was very hardworking and wanted to make everything possible and joyful for them. She went out of her ways and tried to make the whole household happy. In the story, “Everyday Use,” there was Maggie who was very respectful, unselfish, she never wanted more than what she needed. Maggie also helped her mother around the house and outside. She was like her mother’s right hand, always by her side when she need her the most. She was true to her heritage and always went by what was instilled in her from the beginning and followed it. Then of course it was, Dee who was very proud, overconfident, selfish, ungrateful, and arrogant she always wanted to do things her way and wanted to find things out on her own regardless of what was instilled in her from the beginning. …show more content…
The problem to me was that she didn’t want to follow her begins or teachings because she was very embarrassed, or shamed of her sister and mother. She was very explorative, she wanted to find her a better standard of living; which in her explorations and her very high education, it has distanced herself from her family. She was selfish, as she finds out that the quilt was given to her sister and she was very mad about it. Simply because she thinks that she is more appreciative of her heritage than her sister Maggie which she isn’t. She says, “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts.” She also states that, “She’d probably be backwards to put them to everyday use” (pg.