Everyday Use by Alice Walker seems to be about a strong-willed African-American mother who lives with her daughter Maggie in a small house with an “extended living room” that they both “made so clean and wavy”. The mother in this story lives her simple yet complex life content of what she has; and not what she needs. She hopes that both of her daughters; Maggie and Dee, will be forever blessed and fortunate enough to succeed in living their lives by the example she leads.
After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. [...] In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. …show more content…
If your constantly derailing yourself with every footstep that once graced; and made excellent use of, the main road that is life, then how are you expected to fully appreciate the road of those who came before you? Sometimes, in order to fully see and understand where we are going; we must first look back at all of where we came from.
Finally, I felt as if Dee and Maggie might have both lost track of their family and tradition. However, at the end of Alice Walker’s short story; entitled, “Everyday Use”, about an African-American family, and their values, Maggie; unlike Dee, managed to keep the recollection of her heritage alive, and as a result took her mother’s advice to heart, as she “[sought] to try to make something of [herself]”. Maggie and her mother saw this gift as “a new day for [them,] but from the way [Maggie] and [her mother] still live you'd never [actually] know
After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. [...] In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. …show more content…
If your constantly derailing yourself with every footstep that once graced; and made excellent use of, the main road that is life, then how are you expected to fully appreciate the road of those who came before you? Sometimes, in order to fully see and understand where we are going; we must first look back at all of where we came from.
Finally, I felt as if Dee and Maggie might have both lost track of their family and tradition. However, at the end of Alice Walker’s short story; entitled, “Everyday Use”, about an African-American family, and their values, Maggie; unlike Dee, managed to keep the recollection of her heritage alive, and as a result took her mother’s advice to heart, as she “[sought] to try to make something of [herself]”. Maggie and her mother saw this gift as “a new day for [them,] but from the way [Maggie] and [her mother] still live you'd never [actually] know