İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I - Deneme Sınavı - 14

Information about the characters and the events comes in pieces.

In the study room of Angela

Because Angela had an affair with someone else.

Revealing truth in marriage where there is no love and respect.

She thinks that he is a handsome man.

The short story Everyday Use was written by Alice Walker.

The story is told from the point of view of the mother.

One day, Dee arrives with a man and tells that her name is now Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo.

Maggie tells that Dee can take the quilts since she can remember her grandmother without them.

The family has been living in America for a long time and even the elder members of the family joined in the American Civil War. Dee only wants the old quilts in order to display them whereas the mother thinks these quilts are made for everyday use.

The setting of the story is mainly the yard of the house the mother and Maggie lives in. Later on, the characters go inside the house for a meal and the discussion about the quilts mainly takes place inside the house.

The exact time of the story is not overtly stated, but this story is published in Walker’s story collection book In Love and Trouble (1973).

The grandma does not appear in the story but the characters refer to her.

Dee is an educated, sophisticated young woman and she seems to know everything. Despite her education at college, it is ironic that she does not know much about her family’s inheritance. She is only superficially interested in the quilts and wants to hang them on the walls.

The quilts were originally made by her mother, her aunt and her grandmother using her grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s old dresses.

Person against society

I and II

There is no chronological order in the author's narrations.

Because of the dispersed colonies from America to Africa and India.

They gave shape to politics, morality and arts.