Character In "Everyday Use"
The short story "Everyday Use" shows a very vivid character, Dee. Dee comes across as a very selfish character. Before you even get a chance to warm up to Dee you see that she thinks she is better than her surroundings. Her mother was a very hardworking woman. Mama shows she has done the best she could to provide for her daughters. Mama is a large woman who enjoyed man's work and working with her hands. Mama stated that she had knocked a calf between the eyes and had it hanging in the meat shed before dark. Dee treats Maggie as an underling that has no capability of thought or reason. Maggie was burned badly when the family's first house burnt.
When Dee returned home she informed everyone that she would be called Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo (Wangero). When Mama asked why, she said Dee is dead and that she was escaping the oppression that her name held. The story shows that Dee never encountered any oppression. Mama even stated that "no" was a word that the world had......
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