Tayo'Y Pilipino
1. The MOTHER
The story "Everyday Use" provides many details about both Dee and Maggie. They are as different as they can be. Dee is the engaging and adventurous one, with tendencies to take up causes and enthusiasms, while Maggie is the shy, bashful, retiring homebody. Of the two, Dee is attractive and proud of herself, whereas Maggie is homely and scarred from burns, and is therefore withdrawn. Dee is self-centered and self-absorbed, not at all realizing that Maggie, too, has feelings and also has a strong sense of family background. Maggie is generous, being willing to give up the quilts (paragraph 74) to her demanding older sister, but perhaps her willingness is a submissive expectation of being down while Dee is at the top. However, Maggie also exhibits anger when Dee asks for the quilts (paragraph 57). In other words, the younger sister is not totally submissive and retiring.
Maggie and Dee are two sisters born to the same mother but circumstances have resulted in a complete contrast between the two. The differences in their personalities is brought to a sharp focus in their different attitudes to the quilts. Maggie more than Dee would value and permanently treasure the quilts for the following reasons:
1. The quilts have always proved to be a source of comfort and encouragement to Maggie who is described by the mother as "homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, [who is always] eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe." and a little later as, "she has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground." So a girl like Maggie who is timid and not successful in life like her sister will have great regard for the tradition and the culture of her past.
2. Maggie's roots are deeply and firmly planted in the cultural soil of her family's traditions, unlike Dee who was always ashamed of and hated her rural traditions and upbringing:"she had hated the house that
The story "Everyday Use" provides many details about both Dee and Maggie. They are as different as they can be. Dee is the engaging and adventurous one, with tendencies to take up causes and enthusiasms, while Maggie is the shy, bashful, retiring homebody. Of the two, Dee is attractive and proud of herself, whereas Maggie is homely and scarred from burns, and is therefore withdrawn. Dee is self-centered and self-absorbed, not at all realizing that Maggie, too, has feelings and also has a strong sense of family background. Maggie is generous, being willing to give up the quilts (paragraph 74) to her demanding older sister, but perhaps her willingness is a submissive expectation of being down while Dee is at the top. However, Maggie also exhibits anger when Dee asks for the quilts (paragraph 57). In other words, the younger sister is not totally submissive and retiring.
Maggie and Dee are two sisters born to the same mother but circumstances have resulted in a complete contrast between the two. The differences in their personalities is brought to a sharp focus in their different attitudes to the quilts. Maggie more than Dee would value and permanently treasure the quilts for the following reasons:
1. The quilts have always proved to be a source of comfort and encouragement to Maggie who is described by the mother as "homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, [who is always] eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe." and a little later as, "she has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground." So a girl like Maggie who is timid and not successful in life like her sister will have great regard for the tradition and the culture of her past.
2. Maggie's roots are deeply and firmly planted in the cultural soil of her family's traditions, unlike Dee who was always ashamed of and hated her rural traditions and upbringing:"she had hated the house that