Every Day Use

In The past days in are class we recently read this stories “Every Day Use “ and “A Walk To The Jetty “ the characters in this story shared similar character traits. Using Quotes From the stories I will show their similarities in the stories “Every Day Use” and “A Walk To The Jetty“ Character’s from both stories Shane the characters traits of disdain, pridefulness , ingratitude. The story everyday use should be named Everyday Disdain because of all the hatred that is shown from each family member. Each character has a problem with another character and continues to fight with them throughout the story. Mama states that when Maggie didn't follow Dee’s orders that “Her eyes blazed open” and she was upset for the rest of the story. And their is a constant theme throughout the story of pointing out Maggies flaws instead of focussing on her good traits. Mama states that “Maggie's brain is like an Elephants”. Her daughter has a mental disability and she now thrashing her. Her daughter can't help the way she is and her mom has no right to talk to her this way.
While a great amount of poor traits are shown, there are some wonderful traits that have been shown. The most common one is pridefulness. While the characters may show hatred and ignorance to each other, they all have a sense of pride and well being in who and what they are. For example, Annie hates almost everything about the Island she lives on. The people, the food, and most of all the Jetty! But she also has a little bit of pride in the place that she grew up in. For example she states, with a great sense of pride , that “The bed I am lying in my father built”.”Almost everything in my house my father has built”. Even though she hates almost every single thing about the Island she still has the ability to find some pride in what she does and how she does it.
Annie is they type of person who has no sense of appreciation or gratitude. She’s the type of person who can never be happy because she