Everyday Use By Alice Walker Analysis

That's just the way it is ,things will never be the same. From generation to generation socio cultural communication and ideas shift. Some are born ready for change while some are complacent with their standard regard in society. In 'Everyday Use" by Alice Walker we see how nurture v.s nature , how were we come from doesn't necessarily deter where we find common ground.The narrator is a conventional southern African American mother ,in the late 60's early 70's , with two young daughters who share two different ways of living. Dee is the oldest, some may mistaken her constant need to put value to her self and things around her ,as vanity. While her other sister Maggie is passive and routinely conditioned to the way things are. Blood may be thicker then water but a flood can overflow any narrow river.
We are born with it genetically to reform or conform to these ideas that impact us. Even though we are born into a way of doesn't mean it suits us well , just like how Dee made a "green suit from an old suit somebody " had given her mother . Dee seems to always to be fiercely innovative to the point her mother even says " she was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Though the mother had a sense of pride in her daughter she always mistaken Dees ever needing sense of renewal for vanity. For example because Dee was given the privilege to go away to school she would come back home with the way she was nurtured in her educational environment. When Dee would share her knowledge to her mother and sister, her mother would view it as "forcing lies, other folks's habits". Though the feud hits right at home it's a generational shift and new wave of consciousness setting a ridge in your common southern