Everyday Use Questions and Answers
What are some examples of figurative language in Walker's "Everyday Use"?
What is the main conflict in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker?
How does the following passage from "Everyday Use" contribute to readers' understanding of Maggie? "'Aunt Dee’s first husband whittled the dash,' said Maggie so low you almost couldn’t hear her. 'His name was Henry, but they called him Stash.'"
Why does Dee change her name in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"?
What is the meaning of the title "Everyday Use"?
"When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet." What hit mama? What did she understand that she had not understood a moment before? Does anyone else in "Everyday Use" have an epiphany?
In "Everyday Use," what happens in the mother's dream about appearing on televison?
In "Everyday Use," why does Dee think Mama and Maggie don't understand their heritage?
In "Everyday Use," why does Dee want the quilts?
Describe the narrator in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.
In "Everyday Use," how does Dee’s perspective on the family's possessions compare to the perspective of the rest of her family?
In "Everyday Use," does the mother's refusal to let Dee have the quilts indicate a permanent or temporary change? Why has she never done anything like it before? Why does she do it now? What details in the story prepare for or foreshadow that refusal?
What is Dee's attitude toward her heritage compared with the attitudes of her mother and sister in "Everyday Use"?
In "Everyday Use," what are Maggie and Dee's different attitudes toward heritage, and what do quilts symbolize in the story?
How important is the setting of "Everyday Use" to the plot?
Why does the narrator give Maggie the quilts?
What could be a thesis statement for the short story “Everyday Use”? Also, what quotes from the story would support the thesis statement?
In the short story "Everyday Use," how does the physical setting give support to the contrasting attitudes of both Mama and Dee?
Describe as fully as possible the lives of the mother, Dee, and Maggie prior to the events of the story, "Everyday Use." How are the following incidents from the past also reflected in the present actions: ( a) Dee’s hatred of the old house; (b) Dee’s ability “to stare down any disaster”; ( c) Maggie’s burns from the fire; (d) the mother’s having been “hooked in the side” while milking a cow; (e) Dee’s refusal to accept a quilt when she went away to college?
In "Everyday Use," how would you describe the way that Dee reacts to the food and objects in her mother’s house? Discuss Dee’s mother’s and sister’s reactions to her new persona, “Wangero.” Do you sympathize with them?
Why does Maggie have a real smile at the end of the story "Everyday Use"?
What is the irony in "Everyday Use"?
What do the butter churn and the dasher symbolize for the narrator in "Everyday Use"?
What is the imagery in "Everyday Use"?
In what ways does the effect of "Everyday Use" depend on its voice and perspective?
What is the importance of names in "Everyday Use"? For example, what does “Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo” represent?
Why does Dee take pictures of the house?
How did Dee treat Mama and Maggie?
Describe the relationship between Maggie and Dee in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.
The narrator could best be described as... Group of answer choices cruel tough self-conscious fragile
What is an example of personification in the short story "Everyday Use"?
Who are Hakim-a-barber and John Thomas and what do the names suggest? this is from "Everyday use"
What does Dee mean when she says that Mama doesn't understand their heritage?
What is the author trying to say in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker?
In "Everyday Use," how has Dee changed since she has last seen her mother and sister?
What were the differences between Mama's and Wangero's (Dee's) perspective of using cultural objects every day? Who do you agree with?
In "Everyday Use," why is the mother reluctant to let Dee have the quilts?
Why does Dee come to visit in "Everyday Use"? What does this tell you about her character?
In "Everyday Use," what do Dee's new name and costume and her concern for her heritage have in common regarding social movements?
What makes the quilts valuable to Dee? What makes the quilts valuable to Maggie?
Compare and contrast the relationships between the mother and each of her daughters, Dee and Maggie, in "Everyday Use."
Describe Mama's relationship with Dee in "Everyday Use."
What is the meaning of Dee changing her name to Wangero in ''Everyday Use''?
In "Everyday Use," what inference can you make about what the narrator wants from Dee?
How would the story "Everyday Use" be different if it was told from a different "point of view"?
What is the moral of "Everyday Use"?
Characterize the speaker and evaluate her reliability as a reporter and interpreter of events. Where does she refrain from making judgements? Where does she present less than the full truth? Do these examples of reticence undercut her reliability? Secondly, does the mother refusal to let Dee have the quilts indicate a permanent or temporary change of character? Why has she never done anything like it before? Why does she do it now? What details in the story prepare for and foreshadow that refusal?
What do you think is the importance of the TV-show dream in the story "Everyday Use"? How does it help us understand the relationship between the narraror and Dee?
Why won't Dee bring her friends to visit the family's new house?
İn "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, is Dee wholly unsympathetic? Is the mother's victory over her altogether positive? What emotional ambivalence is there in the final scene between Maggie and her mother in the yard?
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