Everyday Use

In the Short story ?Everyday Use? written by Alice Walker, the mother and also narrator was described as a manly woman who for the first time triumphantly stands up to her spoiled eldest daughter Dee. This story of the treatment a mother entails from her bratty daughter is both frustrating and relieving. Frustration when Dee repeatedly tries to take advantage of her mother and younger sister Maggie. And Relief with the mother will have not more of that and says the unthinkable word ?No? to Dee.
The mother of this short story describes herself as a tough laboring woman who knows the meaning of hard work, because of this she is seen through Dee?s eyes as embarrassing. In the eyes of Dee the life that her mother and Maggie live is poor and unrewarding lacking the upper class status that she has worked hard to establish herself as in the future. To Dee the life she was brought up in was an obstacle she had to over come, taking pictures of her mother, Maggie, ...