Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” 2077-83

1.  Describe the narrator.

2.  Describe Maggie.

3.  Describe Dee.

4.  Why has she changed her name and why doesn’t her mother get upset?

5.  What do the quilts represent?

6.  Why should Maggie get the quilts? 

7.  How does the story end and why?

8.  How does Walker’s story compare to Chesnutt’s, Hughes’s, or Wright’s?