1. Mama's Choice in Everyday Use
Walker's short story raises questions about how identity, tradition and ideology are connected to each other and provides her own personal answer to it. ... The short story shows with humor, but little traceable compassion from the writer's part, how blind Dee's fixation with trying to claim her heritage makes her towards seeing the truth of the African American experience and how she only accepts what she has read about it. ... Dee also fails to see that her mother and sister have their own voices and their own mind, which she confirms with her parting words: "You just don...
- Word Count: 1911
- Approx Pages: 8
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate