Everyday Use By Alice Walke Character Analysis

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Everyday Use," a stroy written by Alice Walke, is about a lower class gamily of theww that has to move because their house caught on fire. The story starts with Mama and daughter, Maggie, expecting Dee. Dee is the daughter of Mama and the sister of Maggie. She is somewhat different from her family. Dee in "Everyday Use" is a rude, selfish, and high maintenance kind of character. Dee does not like the house she lived in as a child. As a matter of fact, when the house started burning right in front of her eyes, she stood there concentrating, watching every piece of the house burn to flames. Dee did not even hellp her mother carry Maggie out of the burning building. She did not care about the house nor her family. Dee attended school in Augusta…show more content…
She feels as if her family is oppressive to her. One was Dee tried removing herself from her family was by changing her name completely. Instead of Dee, she changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. She did not care that she was named after her aunt. She wants nothing to do with her family what so ever. Also, she wanted antiques that had been passed down from her family. The only reason she wants these antiques is because it made people look at her as if she was more wealthy. She did not care that the antiques are very sentimental or useful to her family. She just wants to make herself look better. Not only is Dee selfish but she is also a very high maintenance woman. Dee is always neatly dressed, unlike her mother and sister. Her mother wore overalls and sloppy looking things for her everyday clothing style. It states in the story that Dee's feet were shaped as if God shaped them with a certain style. Dee carried herself in a way that her family did not. Dee is a very disrespectful person in the short story "Everyday Use." She does not know how to treat her family. Her personalitly is not one that is liked by many. She does not want anything to do with the familt that oppressed her. Eventually, at the end of the story Dee learns that she will not always get her

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