The short story "Everyday Use" takes place in the home of a black family. The house has three rooms, a tin roof and holes in the walls for windows. This is a family without a man, but a mother that works as hard as a man. In Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use," the likenesses and the differences between the character Dee and her mother are manifested in many ways. One way the manifested, were …showed first 75 words of 296 total…

…showed last 75 words of 296 total…Dee though, was a pretty educated woman. Her mom and the church raised money for Dee to send her to college in Augusta. She was confident about how smart she was, and that intelligence against her mom and Maggie. Mother said, "She washed us in a river of make believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know."(62). The attitude towards Maggie was mutual between Mother and Dee. They b