In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Dee gets angry at her mother because she won't let Dee take the quilts she had already promised to give to Maggie. I don't think this feeling is justified at all. Mother sent Dee to a school in Augusta to be happy since their house had been burned to the ground, which must have been expensive; when Dee comes to visit her she seems to have changed. Dee appears to be very unappreciative. Mom tells Dee that she already promised Maggie they could be hers, then asks "Why don't you get one or two of the others?" (Walker160). Dee gets angry at the narrator. She could have simply told Dee that she couldn't have any quilts and furthermore Dee hadn't given her a good enough reason to have the quilts instead of