Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”

Maggie and Dee have many discrepancies that cause them to view each other as an opponent. Maggie is always “nervous until after her sister goes” away. Maggie “[eyes] her sister with…envy and awe,” and when Dee comes home to visit, Maggie “attempts to make a dash for the house” to escape having to face Dee again. She gives i

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Dee, on the other hand, has “nicer hair and a fuller figure. When Maggie makes a comment about the dash that Dee wants, Dee cuts her down and “[laughingly]” refers to Maggie’s brain as that of “an elephant’s. ” Maggie and Dee’s competitive spirits lead them both to be judgmental of each other. ” Dee, on the other hand, spends no time at home.

Maggie and Dee have different physical traits. Maggie’s self confidence is so low that she walks with her “chin on chest,” like a “lame animal” that has been run over by a crazy driver.

Although both girls are raised in the same environment, Maggie and Dee have different opinions on how their heritage should be lived out. ” Maggie is upset that Momma will let Dee have the quilts Big Dee made, but says “she can remember Big Dee without them. ” Dee’s attitude toward Maggie is so harsh that Momma “[thinks] she [hates] Maggie. ” Dee feels that Maggie “can’t appreciate [the] quilts” and uses a camera to take pictures of the house and Momma, as if to preserve them. ” She wanted “nice things” and left home to go to college in “Augusta. ” Even a glimpse of Dee lets Momma know she’s coming because her feet are always “neat

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looking as if God himself had shaped them. Dee had a “style of her own at sixteen. n to letting Dee have the quilts like “someone who [is] used to never winning anything. ” Maggie and Dee’s physical qualities prove to be more than skin deep.

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