Reflection:
“Every Day Use” is the story of a family composed by tree woman. Their story is about identity, culture, exclusion, and personal differences. The story is narrated by one of the characters, Mama, in first person point of view. Mama related into other things, the arrival of one of their daughters, Dee. Dee is very different from Mama and Maggie; she is interested, opportunist, ashamed about her origins and she believes she had deserve everything. She thought she was more intelligent and value because she had a different style of life that she thought was better. But it was not necessary better the way she was living. Most of the time, Dee did not visit Mama and Maggie, but the story tell a day she did. I believe she was just interested, not to see Mama and Maggie, but to take things of value. But she was surprised and envious when Mama chooses Maggie to give her the quilts. I believe the quilts represent the identity and the traditions. Dee did not want the quilts from what they represent; she knew what they represent because she said it: “Your heritage”, but she could not take them as it; because she lived trying to change what she was, trying to erase her origins. Something special in the story is the way that Mama feels that the quilts should be for Maggie, how she had change just in that moment her preference from Dee to Maggie.
In the story we can see like a comparison that Mama is making between Dee and Maggie, they were very different, in their personalities, attitudes, capacities and abilities, intelligence, and physical characteristics. Maggie was very humble, she believed her sister deserved everything but for her anything; “like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her”, because always in her house was in that way. But that day the story became fair and the heritage and the traditions go to the person that will use it.
“Every Day Use” is the story of a family composed by tree woman. Their story is about identity, culture, exclusion, and personal differences. The story is narrated by one of the characters, Mama, in first person point of view. Mama related into other things, the arrival of one of their daughters, Dee. Dee is very different from Mama and Maggie; she is interested, opportunist, ashamed about her origins and she believes she had deserve everything. She thought she was more intelligent and value because she had a different style of life that she thought was better. But it was not necessary better the way she was living. Most of the time, Dee did not visit Mama and Maggie, but the story tell a day she did. I believe she was just interested, not to see Mama and Maggie, but to take things of value. But she was surprised and envious when Mama chooses Maggie to give her the quilts. I believe the quilts represent the identity and the traditions. Dee did not want the quilts from what they represent; she knew what they represent because she said it: “Your heritage”, but she could not take them as it; because she lived trying to change what she was, trying to erase her origins. Something special in the story is the way that Mama feels that the quilts should be for Maggie, how she had change just in that moment her preference from Dee to Maggie.
In the story we can see like a comparison that Mama is making between Dee and Maggie, they were very different, in their personalities, attitudes, capacities and abilities, intelligence, and physical characteristics. Maggie was very humble, she believed her sister deserved everything but for her anything; “like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her”, because always in her house was in that way. But that day the story became fair and the heritage and the traditions go to the person that will use it.
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