Critical perspective on Alice Walker's Everyday Use

Introduction

The story “Everyday use” is a story about a family and their relationship and conflicts with each other, written by Alice Walker. Mrs. Johnson is a mother of two daughters, Maggie and Dee. Mrs. Johnson and her family do not have the nicest things but she appreciates everything that they do have (Walker & Christian, pp. 40 - 70). Dee who is apparently the older daughter has been sent to August, Georgia where she would attend Augusta State University. They did not have money to send her to school on their own, so the church helped them ...