Everyday Use- Character Analysis "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, is a story of a black family composed of a mother and her two daughters: Maggie and Dee. ... Dee is a flat character, yet Walker uses Dee's character to warn people of what might happen if they do not live properly. ... Dee tells her mother and Maggie that they do not understand their heritage, because they plan to put "priceless" heirloom quilts to "everyday use"(Walker 96). ... Dee believes she is more cultured than her family. ... Maggie is illustrated as Dee's foil. ...

• Word Count: 735
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The sociological evaluation of Everyday Use by Alice Walker enlightens on issues that continue to plague American families in the present. ... In Everyday Use economic problems are abound in how Walker forms her characters. ... She offers Dee some machine-sewn quilts, to which Dee refuses. ... In response, they allow Dee to go, and they spend the rest of the evening sitting in the yard, not caring a wink about what Dee said. ... Everyday Use is set in the late sixties, a time when African-Americans were struggling to define their personal identities in cultural terms. ...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Everyday Use" The use of variety of customs in a text can broaden its horizons. ... In the story "Everyday Use" by author Alice Walker there are many uses of culture. ... "Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. ... A variety of culture is also used when the narrator's daughter, Dee (Wangero), comes home. ... This transition in culture shows Dee's process of assimilation. ...

• Word Count: 355
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Alice Walkers "Everyday Use" is a story that shows how these changes affect a family living in two different worlds. ... In "Everyday Use", when Dee comes to visit she informs her mother that her name is no longer Dee, but Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. ... What someone values highly now, may be of no use later. Consequently, what someone sees as an everyday object now, may become historically significant later. ... Dee couldn't understand why Maggie should have them because she would put them to everyday use. ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School