In Alice Walker’s, Everyday Use, the point of view is that of the mother’s. She is the narrator. She is also what we’d call a protagonist. A hero in a way. She is telling the story from her perspective, so we see her children the way she sees them. As with most stories, there is a protagonist and an antagonist. In this story, the antagonist is Dee, the narrator’s oldest daughter. Dee does her own thing and is a bit of a rebel. Perhaps just an average African American teenager of the 1970’s, trying to
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