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An 8 page paper which compares conflicts of the characters in Alice Walker’s short story Everyday Use. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Americans, daughters, mothers, differing generations and history as it relates to family issues. In this story there are three primary characters, the mother and two daughters, one of which lives
with the mother. The following paper compares the conflicts experienced by the characters in Walkers story. Alice Walkers Everyday Use The mother in this story is a relatively
simple woman, and a mother. One sees the beautiful simplicity and contentedness of her life in the very beginning when she states "I will wait for her in the yard
that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know" (Walker). She illustrates how it is very much
an extension of her living room, her house: "When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves,
anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house" (Walker). This offers a very stable and
beautiful simplicity in the life, and the character, of the mother. The person she is waiting for, however, is one of her daughters, a daughter who has "succeeded" in that
she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a conflict related to her daughter.
She desires that her daughter acknowledge her and love her in a romantic and real way. She envisions how she and her daughter could be on one of those television
shows that reunites people and she would experience "Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes" (Walker). Such information clearly indicates that she has a conflict with her daughter
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