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Everyday use

            Alice walker is a person and people tend to have two different sides. For Alice the two sides are the sisters Dee and Maggie. Dee is the "envy and awe" of the two sisters who looks towards the finer things. Maggie is one who was disfigured in her childhood and held back by her abilities. One side will look at material as all that matters to them where the other will see material as a representation of something much greater.
             When Maggie was given the quilt there is this relief that we know she is being loved for her loyalty to which she is not what she is. She knows that she is not the smartest or best-looking girl in the world, she can't even say that for her immediate family but she takes nothing for granted unlike Dee who is stuck on what she wants. Maggie may use the quilt for everyday use but that is because she would hold it so close to her for what the quilt represents to her is far greater then the quilt itself. The quilt represents not her past or heritage but the present love that her mama has for her and that is a far greater meaning for the quilt for her. .
             Dee the educated sister sees the quilt as a material object in her new life as Wangero. Coming back home as one who has new strong beliefs that were far more important then years before when she believed that getting that yellow organdy dress for her graduation was so important to her. When she speaks in a letter to home she is embarrassed about her home, but has a sudden change of heart to want to embrace it. She wants the quilt among other things to bring back to her old life to have priceless objects to hang on the wall. Its hard to believe that she want them just to remember but maybe to gloat with her possible new found love. .
             The TV show that mama sees in her dream shows how Dee is embarrassed of her and how she comes off as materialistic and fake. In the dream everything is so picture perfect and exactly how mama thinks that Dee would like to see her.


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1. Everyday use

Symbolic Meaning of the title "Everyday Use" and how it relates to the theme in Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" The short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker is narrated by "Big Dee" a black woman in the south who is faced with the decision to give away two quilts to one of her daughters. ... Dee argues that Maggie would not appreciate the quilts and that "She"d probably be backwards enough to put them to everyday use." ... Everyday use is what the quilts were intended for when they were made, although they carried such deep underlying meaning. ... The "quilt is a metaphor...

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"Everyday Use", by Alice Walker, shows how education can ruin one's sense of family values. ... In "Everyday Use", education destroys Dee's sense of family values. "Everyday Use" is about the dissension that arises between a mother and daughter after the daughter becomes educated. ... They were put to everyday use and Dee wanted them simply to go as decorations. ... Dee got very upset, arguing that Maggie would "be backward enough to put them to everyday use." ...

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Everyday Use In the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker the title ties into the issues about the quilts. ... Dee feels she deserves them more because she won't put them to everyday use. ... From down the line Grandma Dee and Big Dee created their quilts for everyday use and that's what Maggie wants to continue. Dee actually is putting the quilts to everyday use also by having them displayed for their appearance. ...

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Everyday Life Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" tells the story of how a mother can become emotionally unattached from her oldest daughter after years of separation. ... She also begins gathering things around the house that are everyday tools for Mama and Maggie (the younger daughter) which she will use as decoration in her own home. ... Both of the examples above can be used to help illustrate the theme of heritage, which can pose a social or a cultural conflict for everyone, especially the characters in this story. ... But this is not a rare case of cultural and social conflicts leading t...

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Everyday Use Everyday Use contrasts two generations to define a lost heritage. Dee, who is home from college, decides that she has a sudden interest in her ancestry. Dee comes home to her mother and her sister, Maggie. The mother has a very realistic and objective view of herself. She admits tha...

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7. Everyday use

Everyday Use Everyday Use contrasts two generations to define a lost heritage. Dee, who is home from college, decides that she has a sudden interest in her ancestry. Dee comes home to her mother and her sister, Maggie. The mother has a very realistic and objective view of herself. She admits tha...

  • Word Count: 431
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  • Grade Level: High School

8. Everyday use

Everyday Use Everyday Use contrasts two generations to define a lost heritage. Dee, who is home from college, decides that she has a sudden interest in her ancestry. Dee comes home to her mother and her sister, Maggie. The mother has a very realistic and objective view of herself. She admits tha...

  • Word Count: 431
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

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  • Grade Level: High School

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