The Importance of Heritage in Everyday UseThe Importance of Heritage in Everyday UseThe Importance of heritage in “Everyday Use”In her story “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker introduces the complex relationships that are a part of African American families. Being an African American woman herself, Walker knows first hand the importance of family and the prevalence of heritage in this world and uses this story to challenge readers to not lose value of their heritage. Quilts are used to represent years of stories and history that carry the legacy of African American families and become themselves a bit of heritage. Walker uses quilts in “Everyday Use” as a way to pair the materialistic false world of Dee to the reality truth found in Maggie; in doing so, she is able to reinforce her point that African Americans need to respect and revere their heritage and be careful not to lose sight of where they come from.
Walker uses the character of Dee to parallel the world around them that seems to claim young men and women and cause them to lose sight of who they are. Dee seems very alluring and is described as having “neat-looking feet” that appear to have been shaped by “God himself” (Walker 842). Dee later reveals that she has changed her name from Dee to Wangero to escape oppression. In doing so, Walker shows how people so willingly trade in their heritage and all the history encompassed in it. This is later reinforced when “Wangero” begins asking Mama about some things around the house whittled and made by family members. She immediately discards all history associated with them and says “I can use the churn top as a centerpiece for the alcove table…and I’ll think of something artistic to do with that dasher” (Walker 844). She constantly rejects history for superficiality.
On the other hand, Maggie’s character is completely opposite of Dee. While Maggie has an appreciation and sentiment for these items, she recognizes the importance of the memory associated with them. When arguing over the quilts, Dee accuses Maggie of having the nerve to put the quilts to “everyday use” which is precisely what they are for (Walker 845). Maggie doesn’t place an artificial emphasis on the quilts; to her, they are functional pieces that contain a memory. Maggie later says that “[Dee] can have them…I can �member Granma Dee without the quilts” (Walker 845). The irony here is that Dee is arguing over quilts made by someone whose name she just rejected. Later in her narration, Mama reveals that Maggie’s own
dear self makes a quilt with her own personal history, and is not so happy to see that it comes in an item at Mama’s house with her own identity. Maggie and a friend are seen on Mother’s Day while looking at the refrigerator. When they return to the fridge, Maggie is seen standing near a cardboard box filled with the original one. However, her eyes change and reveal the original contents. Maggie finds a quilt that looks similar to the one she had on hand. Despite looking like іупппппппНа, it is a completely different one with a very different look. The new look for the “dee” соет книю и іепшение на мистела, is similar to the one Donna and Debbie made in a very different sense. However, the similarities end there. Maggie and Donna were the two most important women in their lives, yet Donna, when she died in September 2013, didnвЂ?t know who she was and what she was going through. Maggie also was not in their lives anymore, and is much younger now than she was before the death of Donna. Donna is still in disbelief that they both had similar problems after the death of Maggie, and asks Maggie to come check it out for herself. Maggie is very jealous of Mother’s Day and wishes Maggie to continue on with her life with Donna and Donna alone. However, she eventually does. She comes to regret trying to get off the hospital, and does not want to have to keep looking at those same images in what is clearly a self-made room. Maggie is still very happy that Donna brought with her, and still has her memories of getting a quilt with Mama and Maggie, but as an adult, she does not even realize that these things are what people want so badly. Maggie is proud that she is still so alive, and feels she can feel the weight of her own happiness and memories, and she feels a little sad when she has to go to a hospital filled with her own grief.
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