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The short story "Everyday Use" takes place in the home of a black family. The house has three rooms, a tin roof and holes in the walls for windows. This is a family without a man, but a mother that works as hard as a man. In Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use," the likenesses and the differences between the character Dee and her mother are manifested in many ways.One way the manifested, were their physical appearances. Mother was a "large, big bo
She was a woman that had to look nice and have nice things. She also brags that "One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes. Dee, on the other hand, was totally the opposite. Her mom and the church raised money for Dee to send her to college in Augusta. Dee though, was a pretty educated woman. The attitude towards Maggie was mutual between Mother and Dee. Their education and self-confidence were also manifested in many ways. She was confident about how smart she was, and that intelligence against her mom and Maggie. ned woman with, rough man working hands"(61). She was very self confident about the way she worked though, Mother said, "I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man"(61). As Mother says, "Dee was lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure"(62). The mother never really had an education. She says, "After the second grade the school was closed down"(62).
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