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Maggie's Quilts In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

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The short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker communicates that someone will inherit something from their family as a memory of them. Dee (Wangero) says, “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” Dee claims that Maggie won’t take care of the quilts indicating that she will appreciate them as a way of trying to persuade her mother (Mrs. Johnson). Mrs. Johnson says, “I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas.” She doesn’t want to let Dee have the quilts she wants because Mrs. Johnson is going to use the quilts for her younger daughter, Maggie when she gets married. The conversation between the mother and older daughter shows that a family member will want the heritage of another family member. Dee wants her grandmother’s

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