“ Everyday use”

  The story “ everyday Use” by Alice Walker, is a story regarding a mother and her two daughters.  One of the daughters , Dee is a smart young girl who comes home from college to visit her mother and sister Maggie.  It seems Dee is embarrassed of her mother and sister and changes her name and personality.  She gets upset when her mother does not give her quilts made by women in her family.  She blames them for not understanding their heritage, but the irony is , they never changed who they were, Dee did.