Dee felt that they had such meaning that it would be a shame to let them deteriorate from everyday use. But Dee and her mother had different views on the situation. Dee's mother said that Maggie has worked on these quilts and if they start to wear out, she could patch them up. Dee thought of them more as treasures then as just quilts, but it took her a long time to realize the value that the quilts actually had.
Alice Walker's use of lucid symbolism creates a world in the readers mind. The mother herself represents the oppression of African American people. The fact that she only had a second grade education demonstrated that she did not have the same opportunities as a white man. She is portrayed as the strong willed African American woman. She describes herself as a manly woman. "I am a large, big-boned woman with rough man-working hands" (Guth, Pg. 238). Dee on the other hand symbolizes ignorance. She refuses to take a quilt that her mother offers her because it is ugly and she is embarrassed by it. She knew what those quilts meant. How could you not? She was mad at her own family; her aunts, sister, uncles, grandparents. She was mad at the wrong people to begin with and almost broke her mothers heart. When she had finally realized that she was no different than the people who oppressed her, it was too late. Dee's mother did not understand why she wanted to change her name to Wangero, but she did not fight it. When Dee came back home to visit with her boyfriend, Hakim-a-barber, she was wearing a bright orange and yellow dress. The dress symbolizes the transformation of Dee. She hated her house and would never bring anyone by to visit and now she is bringing her boyfriend. The dress's, described with great detail by the mother. "A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Guth, Pg.
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