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A 3 page paper which examines the relationship between status and fashion in the characters in Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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go through their lives. The mother and daughter who live together are barely educated and simple, while the daughter from the city is complex and modern, feeling she is more
important and more intelligent than her mother and sister. The following paper examines these characters in relationship to their status and fashion. Everyday Use: Status and Fashion The
states of these three women is different in many ways, and that difference is clearly reflected in their fashion, sense of fashion, or even need for fashion. The mother and
the daughter, Maggie, are very simple women who physically work every day. They are not people who are well educated, with the mother only going through second grade, and Maggie
being able to read, but staggering through it. Because they are relatively simple, and physically work during their days, they have no need for fashion, no need to really look
"nice." We can assume that the mother and Maggie may have dresses they wear especially for Sunday church, but those would not be worn for the sake of fashion, but
for the sake of God. The mother states, "In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day" and then she details some of her
abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked
over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog" (Walker). In this we see that her simple, and hardworking, status does not require any sense of fashion,
but rather dictates the needs of practical clothing. The sister, Maggie, obviously is dressing up for her sisters arrival/visit and asks her mom how she looks, "showing just enough of
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