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A 6 page paper which examines the conflicts between mothers and daughters in these respective African-American works. No additional sources are used.
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slave experience on African-American women. For them, the relationship between mother and daughter symbolically represents the bridge between past and present that provides them with their individual identity while
at the same time continues to define their culture. In Walkers short story, "Everyday Use," and Morrisons stream-of-consciousness novel, Beloved, the conflicts between mothers and daughters occupy center literary
stage. They showcase mothers that want only the best for their children, and daughters that do not always understand or appreciate their efforts. "Everyday Use" is a contemporary tale
in which the mother Dee serves as narrator. She has the same first name as her mother and grandmother, and followed closely in their well established footsteps. Mama
has two daughters, Dee and Maggie, who are as different as night and day. She and Dee share the same name but little else as their estrangement is readily
apparent in Mamas observation, "Youve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has made it is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father,
tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?)
On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program
of this sort... I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are
on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes" (Walker 2274). It becomes immediately apparent that Mama believes the progressive Dee has no respect for
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