EVERYDAY USE

Everyday Use by Alice Walker

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'Everyday Use' is a short story published in the short story collection In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women in 1973. It focuses on the lives of women and how it is connected to the pas and the present. Majority of the stories within this collection have unhappy endings, and the same happens to the protagonist in Walker's story, who is portrayed as victim, manipulated by their husbands or lovers. Everyday Life was the most critically acclaimed story of this collection, due to the protagonist's portrayal of ...