essay “Everyday Use” is a story that contains characters from similar backgrounds that have different strengths, beliefs, and approaches to life. Alice Walker creates the characters by providing the reader with precise descriptions of Mama, Dee, and Maggie Johnson. Her descriptions allow the reader to know much more about the characters than is actually written, via the reader’s ability to relate the characters to people they know, or to themselves. There are conflicts between characters that are
Everyday use Thesis statement: Alice walker carefully portrays the three characters: mother, Maggie and Dee. Literary analysis Alice walker describes mama as uneducated hardworking woman. She is responsible for the whole family, and her hands are more like those of working men"---big-boned women, man working hand ---". She day dreams about that her daughter dreams about more like what she wants her to be. She is trying to be the mother her daughter wants her to be. The mother was with her oldest