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“Everyday Use” By Alice Walker

“Everyday Use” By Alice Walker. American Literature Discussion and Analysis. What is the significance of the title in relation to the central conflict of the story?. Are there any ways in which Maggie is “better off” than Dee?.

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“Everyday Use” By Alice Walker

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  1. “Everyday Use”By Alice Walker American Literature Discussion and Analysis

  2. What is the significance of the title in relation to the central conflict of the story?

  3. Are there any ways in which Maggie is “better off” than Dee?

  4. How does Dee’s sense of heritage differ from her mother and Maggie’s? Is there anything ironic about Dee’s accusations that her mother and sister do not understand their heritage?

  5. Analyze the narrator’s personality and her feelings about her daughter Dee. In what sense is this “her” story?

  6. In the end, with which characters does Alice Walker seem to side on the issue of heritage?

  7. EOCT Prep… • From what point of view is this story told? • How is the story structured? • What kind of character is Dee? Mama? Maggie? (answer choices: static, round, dynamic, flat) • What form of prose is this? (answer choices: novel, novella, drama, short story, epic poem) • What is the primary symbol of this story? How do you know this? • What is this story’s theme? Could it contain more than one theme?

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