Summary Of Everyday Use By Alice Walker

The basic conflict of “Everyday Use” was that Dee has a secret competition going on in her mind. Portraying that she is better than her family based on appearance and being smarter as far as expressing herself better than her sister, not realizing that family/sisters don't compete or look down on one another no matter the circumstances. Walker’s tone in the story sounds as the tone of someone trying to speak for Maggie. Walker knew exactly what both her daughters felt and what they were thinking, she was their mother and a mother knows her children well. Dee was the child that thought and acted superior and always made it known she was, “she was determined to stare down any disasters in her efforts”. She never let any situation phase her in no way shape or
Maggie wasn't as fortunate as Dee to be appealing to the eye or go to a school to help her become smarter. That is why Walker always tried to stand up for Maggie because she knew she couldn't do it for herself. She communicated the story from her point of view, which sounded valid. Walker’s attitude toward each character was given to them by the way they ditched out their attitudes. She respected them and loved them they were her two children Dee and Maggie but she knew them well and called it how she saw it. Asalamalakin seemed like a man of authority and thats probably why Dee married him. He too felt as if he were better than Dee’s family and others in her former community. When he was told “you must belong to those beef-cattle peoples down the road, he replied “I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style”. In other words he's too good for that kind of lifestyle but he still respects it, a nice way to look down on people he considers to be beneath him. Walker treated him accordingly she did respect him for being her daughters husband but he too portrayed himself the same way Dee did. Walker didn't let it bother her at all. She knew Dee felt like the better