Mama And Maggie In Alice Walker's Everyday Use

Mama, Maggie, and Dee are the main characters in “ Everyday Use”. Mama, the narrator of the story, is big boned stronger than most men, and mild tempered ( Thakkar, Tiger). Maggie, Mama’s younger daughter, is a young woman who hasn’t quite come into her own. This may be due to the fact that she was scarred in a house fire as a child, and is self-conscious about her burns. Dee, is Mama’s older daughter and can be described as loud and judgmental. Additionally, she operates under the guise of “Black Pride” and a return to pre-slavery identity that was popular with many black college students in the 1960’s ( Thakkar, Tiger).