Walker's Everyday Use

The first confrontation is when the oldest daughter introduces her male companion and tells her family that she changed her name to an Islamic name, Wangero. What is important about these quilts is that her younger sister helped make them with the their grandmother. Although the name was hard to pronounce, her mother and sister accepted the name and respected her wishes to be called by the name. With no respect to her sister, who was cleaning in the kitchen, she without hesitation asked her mother for the quilts. What Wangero was trying to tell her sister really had nothing to do with the quilts, but with how Maggie needed to break away and initiate her own separate experiences.

After all was said and done, the mother made a decision that the quilts belonged to her younger daughter, and Wangero storms off with Hakim-a-barber. Wangero resented the way her mother and sister lived, but the at the end the mother and Maggie sit out on the porch and return to what they did everyday, live a simple life. ut on the other hand, she seems sad for her other daughter, Maggie, who still lives at home with her. The mother's youngest daughter is someone that is not as smart, but very considerate and innocently understanding, although her older sister did not respect her feelings wholeheartedly. Maggie's life experiences up to that point really existed around the making of those quilts and yet her sister was off to college making new experiences. After having a family dinner, Wangero, rushes off to her mother's bedroom with Hakim-a-barber, her male companion, and seeks out quilts she had obviously planned to retrieve during her visit.