I'm a Fool and Everyday Use

A person’s morality depends upon a his or her distinction between good and evil. Morally superior people have good ethics, honors, and ideals. They are honest and incorruptible with manners and strict principles. The higher degree of morality of a person the more likeable he or she becomes. Such is the case in Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Anderson’s “I’m a Fool”. Due to the author’s use of characterizations and the type of characters they are, most readers perceive the Fool to have a higher morality than Dee. Though this is the case the Fool actually does not have a higher morality than Dee.

Dee and the Fool are opposite characters. Dee’s character does not change. At the beginning of the story, her mother, the narrator, describes Dee’s actions as their old home is lit on fire with her sister inside. Dee’s reaction to this event was uncaring and without surprise since she was the one who lit the fire. Dee’s mother thought that she would “do a dance around the ashes [of the burning house]”(91). Later in the story, See still cares only for herself. When her mother decides to give the quilts to her sister instead of her, Dee arrogantly claims t

Another contrasting character type between the Fool and Dee is whether they are round or flat. The Fool is a round character, whereas Dee is flat. The Fool has many characteristics. The author carefully develops him as to reveal his faults, his drinking and lying, and his good quality, his ability to change, which make him a round character. However, Dee’s character can be described easily in a few words: materialistic, superficial, and uncaring. Dee cares nothing for the truth, which her mother is trying to bestow upon her. Dee tries to embrace her African heritage; however, by changing her name, mannerisms, and appearance, she is actually denying her real heritage, which is American. Her mother explains “I probably could have carried [the heritage] back beyond the Civil War through branches”(94). She also goes around her mother’s house taking objects that appear to have an African appearance for her to display in her own home. When she finds her grandmother’s quilts, she wants to have them for her own. Her mother, already promised them to her sister, denies her for the first time in her life and does not allow her to take them. Dee becomes very angry and feuds with her mother until she sees that she will not be getting the quits and, at that time, leaves the house. Hence, Dee appears as a flat character.

With the combination of character development and character types, the authors show that one character is more moral than the other. The Fool appears to be morally superior to Dee. The Fool realizes he had some something wrong and works to correct if from happening again, making him deem far superior to Dee, who does not try to chan

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