In Whitsitt story, she thinks that Dee actually want the quilts for a sentimental purpose because she feels that they represent her, but Maggie does not feel that way. In the text, “Mama and Maggie lived in the deep rural South and never left while Dee could not wait to leave home (Whitsitt, 2000).” When Dee explains that Maggie would not appreciate the quilts as if she would and what she was trying to say is that Maggie does not appreciate Mama as she does. Whitsitt brings up a significant point in the story of why Dee is the way she is about the quilts. Once Dee pulls the quilts out of the trunk, she starts pulling them from the bottom she feels that it means that the quilts were not being put to everyday
