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Lost Heritage in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"


By contrasting the family characters in "Everyday Use," Walker illustrates
the mistake by some of placing the significance of heritage solely in material
objects. Walker presents Mama and Maggie, the younger daughter, as an example
that heritage in both knowledge and form passes from one generation to another
through a learning and experience connection. However, by a broken connection,
Dee, the older daughter, represents a misconception of heritage as material.
During Dee's visit to Mama and Maggie, the contrast of the characters becomes a
conflict because Dee misplaces the significance of heritage in her desire for
racial heritage.

Mama and Maggie symbolize the connection between generations and the
heritage that passed between them. Mama and Maggie continue to live together in
their humble home. Mama is a robust woman who does the needed upkeep of the land,


I am a large, big-boned woman with rough,......

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