How does your past affect your future? Should having a hard life give you an excuse to treat others with less dignity or respect? "Everyday Use", written by Alice Walker, is an emotive story that tells of a mother with two daughters, who had lived a very arduous life. Her older daughter, Dee, resented her upbringing and couldn't wait to get away and live a more refined lifestyle. The younger daughter, Maggie, severely scarred in …showed first 75 words of 845 total…

…showed last 75 words of 845 total…was really like. Lastly, her use of irony shows that life is not all what we expect it to be. Dee learned that she couldn't rebuff Mama's earlier offer of the quilts without repercussions. In the end Mama decided that Maggie would appreciate them more. Maggie would put the quilts to "Everyday Use". WORKS CITED Walker, Alice. "Everyday Use". In Literature for Composition. Ed Sylvan Barnet, et al.3rd ed. New York; Harper Collins, 1992,56-66