Analization
There are many generalizations and conclusions that could be drawn about the narrator family Alice Walker's short story "Every Day Use". The narrator tells a story about the lives of her two daughters and gives the reader some insight about their relationship, similarities and differences. This story proves that people can come from the same place, and have similar experiences, but can still be worlds apart from each other both physically and mentally.Maggie is one of the sisters who is somewhat timid at times. She also was envious of her beautiful and more attractive sister Dee. The author stated that "Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes, she will be ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her [Dee] with a mixture of envy and awe" (Walker 86). This envy and awe that she experienced was partly because she was not very physically attractive or even smart for that matter. When she would attempt to read to her mother she would "good-naturedly stumble"(Walker 86). Her skin complection was not even like Dee's. "Dee is lighter than Maggie with nicer hair and a fuller figure" (Walker 87). The narrator compared her to a lame animal that was run over by a careless person who was r
She was even amazed at the benched that were "still there". The envy that Maggie felt, the descriptions of her figure, and other physical attributes describes show that Maggie was not attractive at all. Since she had low self-esteem she stayed to herself and never asked for much. The most conflictive comparison between the two sisters was when Wangero asked if the can have the old quilts. "Dee wanted nice things, a yellow orangandy dress to wear to her graduation from High School; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me"(Walker 87). When she changed her name, it hurt Maggie and the Narrator. " The narrator (the mother) agreed but had been saving them since they were made of clothing and cloths that actual family members used to wear. Maggie's personality was one of dejection, but she was very familiar with that feeling. He had converted Dee to his faith and his way of thinking and caused her to change her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. In a million years she would never even consider changing her birth name given to her by her mother. It came to the ultimate height when Dee called the quilts "priceless". Dee's reasoning for changing her name was "she no longer wanted the name of the people who oppressed her" (Walker 88).
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