A Comparison between “Everyday Use” and “Why I live at the P

“Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker, shares some similarities with Eudora Welty’s story, “Why I live at the P.O.”. These two stories are alike in four significant ways. Both stories are about the conflict between two sisters; and in both stories, one sister returns home after gaining some world experience. In each story, one sister is a self-centered antagonist, and the mother is the judge between the two sisters.

In “Everyday Use,” Dee and Maggie are two sisters who are in conflict with one another. Maggie is slightly envious of her older sister Dee, but she also respects her. Maggie “thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that ‘no’ is a word

the world never learned to say to her” (p 840). Maggie is very passive and is the weaker of the two sisters. She is insecure because she is not as smart, nor as good looking as Dee.

She keeps her “chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle” (p. 841). Dee is the self-centered antagonist in this story and is used to getting whatever she wants.

Likewise, “Why I live at the P.O.,” is about two sisters who are in conflict with one another. Si

Likewise, in “Why I live at the P.O.,” Mamma sides with the younger sister. She wants to believe Stella-Rondo and dismisses Sister’s claim. Of course, this attack, on Sister’s part, infuriates Stella-Rondo, and she chooses to get revenge against Sister for her malicious behavior. Stella-Rondo decides to turn Papa-Daddy against Sister by making up a lie about her. If only Sister would have kept quiet about Stella-Rondo’s baby

they will never go to the post office again. Sister claims that she is happy living at the post office and still has her pride.

ster and Stella-Rondo are the sisters in conflict. Sister is only twelve months

marrying Mr. Whitaker, she decides to try to use the child to get Stella-Rondo in trouble with the rest of the family. Stella-Rondo claims that the child was adopted, but Sister

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