When Dee arrives home, she asks for the quilts that at one point she refused to keep. Dee is angered that the quilts were to be passed on to Maggie and says, “[Maggie is] backward enough to put the quilts to everyday use” (6). What Dee does not understand is that Maggie would actually use them for a good purpose instead of hanging it up on a wall. Maggie would preserve the quilts that were passed on through generations of her family. Walker suggests that she feels the importance for the quilts but she actually doesn’t because they were never part of her past to begin
When Dee arrives home, she asks for the quilts that at one point she refused to keep. Dee is angered that the quilts were to be passed on to Maggie and says, “[Maggie is] backward enough to put the quilts to everyday use” (6). What Dee does not understand is that Maggie would actually use them for a good purpose instead of hanging it up on a wall. Maggie would preserve the quilts that were passed on through generations of her family. Walker suggests that she feels the importance for the quilts but she actually doesn’t because they were never part of her past to begin