Everyday Use: for your grandmama
When I am reading this novel, I always stand in Maggie’s side, because she is the weaker, maybe there’s something in our heart make us want to defend the innocent, help the helpless, protect the weak.
Though Maggie was not beautiful, not brave, without high education, but she knew it clearly to carry forward the traditional culture which belongs to them, and she knew the exact way of their lives. So did her mom. Unlike Dee, she hated her house, despised her mom and her sister, she even hated her identity as a black woman. How can I imagine a girl don’t respect her mom just because her mom was a typical black woman, “large, big-boned, with rough, man-working hands” and little education? She never got much attention to her mom’s hard working and full love for her. She didn’t care the love of everyday use, but pay most attention to her “fashion”, only thought the “Everyday Use” could be the antiques, she ignored the real culture that hidden among them. What a poor thing!
To Maggie, she considered “Everyday Use” to be a souvenir of her grandma. We are quite sure, she is a girl with love in her deep heart. She loves her grandma, loves her mom, loves her family, she know the quilt’s story, she know who made it, she know how to made it. She is one of the diligent black woman, kind、honest、down-to-earth、hard work. There is no different between her and the white beautiful appearance women. As we all know Real beauty lies not in the physical appearance, but in the heart.
Maggie deserved it, she deserved the “Everyday use”. When Dee left home in the end, hided everything above the tip of her nose and her chin behind the glass, she was not a black woman anymore and she still can’t be a white woman. Maggie, to the opposite, preserved and passed down their black culture, she got the quilts, she got the things belong to their black woman, black man!
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