In Alice Walker's story, “Everyday Use,” the narrator is the ignorant, but loving and hard-working mother. Dee and Maggie are his daughters, whom he cares deeply about. Maggie, the youngest daughter, shares many views on life as her mother does. She has never been away from home and she and her mother are very close. He learned valuable traditions and their history from his family members. Unlike Maggie, Dee is in college and couldn't wait to get out of the house. She always had ambitions and goals that she set high. Mom's relationship with Dee isn't close, but she dreams of their bond being rekindled. As he waits for Dee to arrive, he thinks of television programs where “the mother and child hug each other” and then the “child tells how he couldn't have done it without her help” (Walker 155). Walker states, “I have a dream in which Dee and I suddenly find ourselves reunited on such a television program” (155). Because of Mom and Maggie's no-nonsense attitude, they have a lot of trouble understanding Dee. Since being exposed to the world outside of their rural Southern town, she feels liberated with the knowledge she has gained. While Maggie and Mama see the butter turner, quilts, and benches as common household objects, Dee sees them as "priceless" works of art. Dee feels she is more connected to African American heritage, but Maggie exemplifies what the culture really is. Johnson, as she describes herself, is a "big-boned woman with rough, working-man's hands" (155). He can do a man's work "as mercilessly as a man" (155). She has never been away from home and sees no need. While he was in second grade, his school was closed and that marked the end of his education. For this reason the mother does not have...half of the paper......es mother as narrator because telling the story from the sisters' point of view would be more biased. Maggie is more reserved and Dee always thinks she's right. Mom gives her honest opinion about both sisters although she is “not a reliable source” (Farrell 181). Maggie ultimately proves that knowing your family heritage is much better than trying to live and be something you're not. Works Cited Farrell, Susan. “Fight vs. Flight: A Reevaluation of Dee in Alice Walker's “Everyday Use.” Short Fiction Studies 35.2 (1998): 179. MasterFILE Elite. Network. March 18, 2014.Tuten, Nancy. "The Everyday Use of Alice Walker." Explicator 51.2 (1993): 125. Academic research completed. Network. March 18, 2014.Walker, Alice. "Daily use." Literature and the writing process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day and Robert Funk. 10th ed. Upper Saddle River: Apprentice, 2014. 155-161.