Alice Dee Everyday Use Analysis
In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker Dee’s attitude towards school is reflected in her treatment towards her mother and sister. Dee treats her mother and sister like they are idiots and that she knows everything.
At first Dee wanted everything, but her mother could not afford it. Then once her mother “raised the money”(p.1058) for Dee to go to school she became very disrespectful towards her mother and sister. Dee thinks she knows everything, like everything in the world. She treats her mother and sister with no respect at all. She is “forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits…” (p.1058) down there throat, while the two of them are “....sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice” (p.1058). Dee is showing them that she knows everything
At first Dee wanted everything, but her mother could not afford it. Then once her mother “raised the money”(p.1058) for Dee to go to school she became very disrespectful towards her mother and sister. Dee thinks she knows everything, like everything in the world. She treats her mother and sister with no respect at all. She is “forcing words, lies, other folks’ habits…” (p.1058) down there throat, while the two of them are “....sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice” (p.1058). Dee is showing them that she knows everything