Everyday Use By Alice Walker

Everyday Use by Alice Walker
In the story of Everyday Use, is in first person narrator which is in the mother’s point of view. Telling the story in first person will allow the reader to get an inside perspective without much judgment. Ms. Johnson (mom) and Dee is the main conflict in the story. Dee wanted the precious quilts and quickly she realizes that she is not getting the precious quilts, she gets furious. Ms. Johnsons’ family is poor and the yard is part of what they call an “extended living room” it’s in the late 1960s, in Augusta, Georgia. Alice Walker gives the differences between the types of rural African American women with the realities that make up their lives humble, yet poor women in the south.
In contrast, Dee is very selfish, confident, can manipulate anyone, and look them in the eyes. She is insensitive, pretty and her mind craved education. She loves to show off her heritage when Dee steps out the car with a “big bright orange, yellow, big, and puffy dress.” It’s so big that she must pull the folds out of her armpits. On the other hand, Maggie is scared of the house fire, she is shy, she never stands up for herself and she is not