In Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use” tells about a poor family living in a ran down house. In the family, was a mother and two daughters all three having different views of heritage. Mama is a simple woman who can appear to be a country woman shows that heritage is done by living and doing simple things in life, Maggie is the shy passive sister that is similar to Mama in her simple way of life but she remembers the meaning of heritage. Dee is a college-attending student learning about heritage. Dee is stylish and outspoken. She tends to view heritage with an art deco attitude…stylish and trendy.
Mama life has been spent working. Working hard in every sense of the word. She worked hard to give to her daughter the chances in life that she never had. Mama is a country woman big, strong, and self sufficient:
I am a large, big boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork even cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. (Walker 174)
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She is the lighter skinned, has nice hair, and a full figure. he physical description of Mama the readers understands that she is a strong, unconventional farmwoman. The quilts are meant to be used and appreciated everyday. Mama does all the things her predecessors done. This is the part of Mama ‘s heritage that makes her tough, self sufficient, and independent. It is through this way of simple living she shows her heritage. ” (180) Maggie knows the true meaning of her heritage and show she would add to the quilts with her own heritage. The character that seems to express the view of heritage that the author believes is Mama. Her body is covered with burn scars and her walking is described like that of a lame dog (174-175). Before she went away to college, the quilts were not good enough for her. One lived the heritage, second remembered it, and third had superficial reasons of heritage.
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