"" He lay exhausted at her feet, his face flat on the floor."" The colorful traditions are well-described here by Joaquin. He sees the importance of woman and makes her strangely strong'. .
Alice Walker's "Everyday Use- talks about woman in a different sense. Aside from being colored, the main character is a mother without a husband. This makes her different from the other two female protagonists. The reason behind her aloneness is not stated. She sees herself as a strong woman. "I am a large, big-boned woman with rough man-working hands."" I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man."" She reiterates that she is more like a man when she says, "Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a man's job."" The reason why she repeats this is probably because she wants to make up for her insecurities. The only way to get over the feeling of inferiority is to console yourself by being proud of the things you do best. In short, the skills of the mother are something she is proud of. It is because of her manly strength that she and her two daughters survived. We need to say manly' because it is unusual for a woman to kill a hog mercilessly. Along with her strong points is her weakness: ignorance. "I never had an education myself."" As a reader, I can feel the twinge of pain towards Dee in her words. "She washed us in a river of make-believe burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand."" She finds comfort in Maggie because they are in the same situation - uneducated. Probably she sees Dee differently because she is educated. And the fact that Dee wanted something more in her life also affected the mother. "Dee wanted nice things."" At sixteen she had a style of her own, and knew what style was."" Maybe Dee appears to her as someone influenced by the culture of the white.