"Everyday Use" opens as the narrator and her youngest daughter, Maggie, await a visit from the older daughter, Dee, and a man who may be her husband-her mother is not sure whe

Walker, Alice. "Everyday Use." Literature. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001.

When Dee arrives, she tells her mother and Maggie that they do not understand their own "heritage," because they plan to put "priceless" heirloom quilts to "everyday use." This is especially ironic that Dee wants these quilts now for their artistic value since the narrator had offered them to Dee earlier when she had left to head off to college. She had declared then that, "they were old-fashioned, out of style."(330) The story makes apparent that Dee is likewise confused about the nature of her heritage both from her immediate family and from the larger black tradition.

One's heritage allows the past history of one's people to affect one on a personal level. To be fully appreciated and

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