VANITY IS THE FIRST CHARACTERISTIC THAT DEE AND CONNIE SHARE. Clearly, both girls have two sides of their character to show, painting a clean and decisive picture of the girls’ attitudes and values. In the story “Everyday Use,” Dee’s mama describes her as having nice hair and a fuller figure (89). Dee’s main display of vanity is her problem with

SIBLING RIVALRY IS THE SHARED ASPECT IN BOTH STORIES. Dee and Connie are the more physically attractive of the siblings, the more cynical siblings and the more oppositional to their mothers. In “Everyday Use”, Dee is the older sibling with all the desirable physical and mental attributes. For a while, Mama thinks Dee hates Maggie (90). Maggie is younger, less attractive, and feels second-rate to Dee. Maggie’s initial reaction to her sister’s arrival was to run and hide (91). Dee undoubtedly sees Maggie as the inferior one, also. Maggie is generally the loser in this rivalry; however, Mama keeps her promise to give the quilts to Maggie even though Dee asks for them (94). Because of Dee’s attitude towards life, Mama generally relates to Maggie better than she does to Dee. Likewise, Connie in “Where are you going? Where Have You Been?” also sees her sister as the less significant one. June, quite the opposite of Connie, is plain, chunky and steady (694). At the heart of this rivalry is Connie‘s overbearing mother. She is continuously comparing Connie to June. She complains, "Why don't you keep your room clean like your sister? How've you got your hair fixed—what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don't see your sister using that junk" (693) Connie’s mother compares the two as if June’s methods of doing something were the only way of doing it. The rivalries, in both stories, have the inferior sisters (Maggie and June) as the child closer to their mother and family. Family conflicts with Dee and Connie are common. Dee and Connie appear as the black sheep of their family and willingly accept this role.

her childhood home and her better than you are attitude. “Dee wants nice things” (90) and despises the home she comes from because of the tattered condition of her family’s house (90). When her family home catches on fire, Dee watches with the house with “concentration” until the last board on th

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