Who deserves it?

"Everyday Use" is a story written by Alice Walker. The story is about the relationship between a mother and her two daughters, but the main theme deals with if it is worth being considered in somebody's will, especially who deserves it and who doesn't.

The mother and the younger daughter, Maggie, are waiting for Dee, the older daughter, to visit them. She comes with her boyfriend, Asalamalakim. They eat together and afterwars Dee begins to look throughthings in the house she would like to have. She finds a quilt and would like to have it too, but the mother gives it to Maggie. Therefore Dee gets mad and departs with her boyfriend.

The story takes place in the house and the yard. The  mother seems to care about the appearance of the house because they cleared the yard and the house before Dee arrives. Inside the house, there are a lot of significant objects which have a personal meaning to the main characters. For example, the benches that the father made for them when they could not afford any money to buy chairs, or the quilt that later gets the point of contention between mother and daughter.

The characters are indirectly described and the main characters are the mother, Maggie and Dee. However, the mother is the first-person narrator of the story. The story is written in past tense and there are some flashbacks.

The mother is very unfeminine and uneducated; she says about herself, "I am a large big-boned woman, with rough, man-working hands." Moreover, there is Maggie. She is the youngest and seems to be very conservative and scared of her bigger sister, but also envious. Dee is the complete opposite of both. She is big-headed, bullish and gets everything she wants. The reader gets the impression that she doesn't really like her family because she left them, and she even changed her name. Dee is the only one in her family who had the privileg to attend school.

The story of Alice Walker is really sweeping because you can easily put yourself in the mother's shoes. At the beginnig, it is a little bit difficult for the reader to understand, but if you read it twice you get fascinated of the story. I would recommend the story to everyone because i think it is very nice to read. Although it seems a little bit sad, it has a lovely ending.

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