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)
             Through the physical description of Mama the readers understands that she is a strong, unconventional farmwoman. Nothing which would make her glamorous to the outside world. It is through this way of simple living she shows her heritage. Mama does all the things her predecessors done. This is the part of Mama 's heritage that makes her tough, self sufficient, and independent. She is proud of her ability to do things, but so much in the way she thinks her ability to do these things makes her better than others are.
             In a similar was to Mama 's simple life, Maggie, the daughter living still at home, is portrayed with the knowledge of heritage. Like Mama, she is not physically attract...