Everyday Use

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In Walker’s Everyday Use, the conflict is a result of clashing cultural values and of cultural point-of-view. Dee, who has adopted the Islamic culture and name the Wangero, returns to her African-American family for a reunion. While there, she asks that a pair of quilts from her deceased grandmother be given to her, not her sister, Maggie. Dee claims that her sister will run them through “everyday use.”
In fact, she charges during a discussion, “Maggie would probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use”. To these charges, her mother, the story’s narrator, says, “I reckon she would use the quilts daily .. God knows I’ve been saving for long enough with no body using them. I hope a he will”. Dee counters by saying, “You just don’t understand … your heritage”.
She charges that her mother does not understand her heritage and therefore should give the quilts to her since she will preserve them. This conflict occurs among Dee,

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