Alice Walker 艾丽斯·沃克+Everyday Use

黑暗中踽踽独行的斗士作者：吴倩来源：《文艺生活·文艺理论》2015年第07期摘 ; 要：从对《Everyday use》浅显的了解来看，文章中的大女儿迪伊的确是一个被批判的人物，她自私，浅薄，对自己的文化并不了解，极其重视物质却不在乎家人的感受。

可是在近几年来的研究看，作者关注黑人妇女在性别和褒扬在种族歧视的社会中为追求自我解放、宗教信仰、尊严、个性完整和生存进行的抗争行为，因此，从这几个方面来看，或许迪伊才是其想要褒扬的对象。

关键词：迪伊;人物形象中图分类号：I712.074 ; ; ; ;文献标识码：A ; ; ; ;文章编号：1005-5312（2015）20-0071-01艾丽斯·沃克（Alice Walker），1944年2月9日出生于美国佐治亚州伊藤顿（Eatonton，Georgia）的一个普通的非洲裔佃农家庭。

长大后的艾丽斯进入斯帕尔曼大学求学，读书时恰逢美国民权运动水涨船高之际，因而，她便投身于为追求种族平等的运动当中，更有幸的曾被邀请到马丁路德金的家中做客，在其毕业之后她继续为追求种族平等，黑人选举权不断奔走。

由于致力于追求黑人权利的背景，加上作为黑人和女性作家这一身份，艾丽斯沃克的小说关注黑人妇女在性别和种族歧视的社会中为追求自我解放、宗教信仰、尊严、个性完整和生存进行的抗争。

《外婆的日用家当》作为艾丽斯沃克的代表作之一，文章看似浅显易懂，但是其中却蕴含着丰富的内涵，值得读者去进行探索和研究。

第一，迪伊本身就是一个美丽的黑人女性的形象，作者在文中多次给予了迪伊形象的直接描写，展现其美丽的形象，而后又通过母亲描述妹妹如同一个跛脚的狗的形象进行对比，从而显示出迪伊本身便拥有上天赋予的优越。

“But even the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet were always neat-looking，as it God himself had shaped them with a certain style.”第二，迪伊自信而美丽，更加对生活有着属于她自己的主动权，并不被别人所支配，也正是因为她本身美丽，在面对大众时也更加的不会觉得自卑和懦弱，因而，相比于被烧伤的妹妹而言便有了更多的资本去掌握生活的主动权。

《外婆的日用家当》中的隐喻分析作者：刘嫣来源：《吉林省教育学院学报·上旬刊》 2011年第5期刘嫣（1.中南民族大学外国语学院，湖北武汉430074；2.荆楚理工学院外国语学院，湖北荆门448000)摘要：《外婆的日用家当》是非裔美国女作家艾丽丝·沃克最著名的短篇小说之一。

作品突出了母亲、迪伊和麦吉这三个黑人女性人物的性格和矛盾冲突。

本文将从隐喻的角度来分析文本以凸现文章的主题，以便使沃克的这一作品得到更好地理解。

关键词：艾丽丝·沃克；隐喻；文化中图分类号：H08文献标识码：A文章编号：1671—1580（2011）05—0070—02艾丽丝·沃克的小说多描写南方黑人的社区生活,尤其关注黑人妇女的生存状态、她们的苦难和抗争。

其代表作品长篇小说《紫色》(1982年)在1983年获得美国文学最高荣誉的三大奖:普利策奖、美国国家图书奖和全国书评家协会奖,沃克因此被视为“黑人妇女写作文艺复兴运动的灵魂人物”。

她的写作视野广泛,作品涉及种族、性别、社会、历史、人性等领域。

《外婆的日用家当》(Everyday Use)收录在她最优秀的短篇小说集《爱情与烦扰：黑人妇女的故事》（In Love and Trouble:Stories of Black Women)。

该作品以其深刻的思想性和完美的艺术性成为美国短篇小说中的经典,深受读者的喜爱和评论界的广泛关注。

之中，以美国黑人权利运动为背景，故事围绕祖先留下来的一些日常用品如板凳、搅乳桶盖、牛奶搅拌器,特别是外婆留下来的两床手工缝制的百纳被展开,成功塑造了三个不同性格的女人形象:母亲和大女儿迪伊、小女儿麦吉。

讲述了一个美国黑人家庭母女三人对象征着黑人遗产的两床被子的不同态度而引发的矛盾冲突。

作品深刻的意蕴,来自于小说中大量的隐喻。

这些隐喻成为了小说的发展线路。

同时也是贯穿小说的语言道具。

本文试从分析这些隐喻的内涵着手来解析其深层主题。

everydayuse读后感中文I really enjoyed reading "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. The story delves into the complexities of family relationships and the struggle to maintain a connection to one's cultural heritage. The characters are well-developed and the themes of identity and heritage are beautifully woven throughout the narrative. The conflict between Deeand her mother and sister is particularly compelling, as it highlights the tension between embracing one's heritage and seeking individuality.英文回答，The symbolism of the quilts in the story is also quite powerful. The quilts represent the family's heritage and the struggle to preserve it. Dee wants to take the quilts and hang them up as art, while her mother sees them as practical, everyday items that should be used and appreciated in daily life. This conflict over the quilts serves as a metaphor for the larger struggle between the characters to understand and honor their heritage.Overall, "Everyday Use" is a thought-provoking and emotionally resonant story that explores the complexities of family dynamics and the importance of cultural heritage.中文回答，我非常喜欢阅读艾丽斯·沃克的《日常使用》。

On the Character of Dee in Everyday UseAlice Walker’s Everyday Use was written in her early time. The short story was written during the heyday of the Black Power Movement. When I learned Everyday Use, my teacher talked much about how to treat traditional culture. In Alice Walker’s novel, mother and Maggie represent the traditional culture of black, while Dee highly praises the culture of white. She didn’t know about the meaning of the traditional culture of black. Dee and Maggie have extremely contrastive characters: Dee being successful, beautiful but arrogant type of woman, Maggie being simple-minded, disfigured and slow. I will analyze the character of Dee as follows:I Being selfishWhen the house burned, “I see Dee standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don’t you do a dance around the ashes? I’d wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.” Dee was selfish and she hated the old house. She didn’t take her mother’s feeling in consideration. Besides, Dee asked for dasher, churn and quilts. Dee refused to take another two quilts.II Being independent and determinedDee was independent and determined. “Dee, though. She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was not part of her nature.”Her mother collected money for Dee and Dee went to the college. Since she was very young, she had gotten rid of the protection of her mother. Dee had her own style, no matter which to choose or how to do, she had never asked for help.III Being arrogantDee didn’t like her mother and her house, so she never brought her friends back home. When she came back home, She changed her name “Dee”into “Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo”, a traditional African name. Besides, she changed her hair and dressing style. Dee took photos for the house, the cow and Maggie to show the oldfashion off to her friends. But now it was different, Dee not only took photos, but also took her boyfriend back home. Compared with her former attitude towards everyday use, Dee showed tremendous cherish. She walked around the house to seek anything that had long history.In the past, the mother wanted to give the quilts to her elder daughter Dee. But Dee rejected them as too old-fashioned and out of style. Therefore the mother promised the quilts to her younger daughter Maggie. Now Dee asks her mother for the quilts and some more pieces of their family heritage because she now regards them as part of her cultural heritage, which she intends to hang on the wall. She wanted to show that she knew about African culture. So she was arrogant.In the end, against the expectation of Dee, the mother refused her wish and gave the quilts to Maggie, who would have agreed to give the quilts to her sister. Dee left without a piece of her family heritage, with her mother being satisfied with their simple southern life and with her sister Maggie, who would put the quilts to everyday use.。

E v e r y d a y U s e人物分析(总3页) -CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1-CAL-本页仅作为文档封面，使用请直接删除Character Analysis of the Everyday Use王鹤澎英语12012014/10/25Character Analysis of the Everyday UseTony WangAlice Walker, the splendid writer who main focused at American Women literature and black literature, wrote the Everyday Use at the beginning of the twentieth century. As one of the most famous short story of Alice Walker, Everyday Use represent the conflicts of three black women. And this story became classic work in American literature because of its profound ideological level and perfect artistic quality.There are three main character in the story. The Mama, a laborious woman; Dee, eldest daughter of Mama, who is beautiful, smart and well-educated; Maggie, in contrast with her sister, who is ugly, cowardice and self-abased. The writer used symbolize, metaphor and others rhetorical devices express the different attitudes of Negros when their culture was impact by a stronger one.Dee is the symbol of Black Culture Nationalism Activity. In the 1960s, some African-American started the Black Culture Nationalism Activity, which aimed at deny the unfair culture position and find Negro’s native culture. In the colonialist culture blacks become inferior nation, so Dee want to change this situation. She thought she love the everyday use of her family, changed her name which she thought was white imposed to her, worn the native clothes (in her mind) of black. However, she still cannot find her position in her mind. In fact, Dee was the woman who wandered between the first world and the third world. She want to enter the main world with her dignity and honor of Negros, but fell into the marsh of confuse. Faced with westerners, she cannot say a word or in accordance with her native culture. In the other hand, faced with her family, she had superiority complex strangely. Because she abandoned one important part of her native culture stage –Negros’ humiliating history. She was not grieved when the house, which was full of he r family’s suffering, burned into ash; she ignore the feeling of her younger sister Maggie, the symbol of African-American’s suffering; she even want to rap the qui lts which is the only thing Mama gave to Maggie. She thought she was finding the root of African culture, but what she did was deviate from her original intention. At all, Dee is only a perplexed woman infected by crowd mentality. She didn’t know that the right attitude to culture heritage is use it as everyday use and renew it continually.Poor Maggie is the youngest daughter of this complicated family. It seemed that all the pains were concentrated into her body. She endured three different kind of pain. The first is the pain caused by slavery system. The Mama used this kind of sentence to describe Maggie - “Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him”. The rich man is the representation of white. Mama‘s meaning is that the sca rs of Maggie were given by white, in other word, slavery system. The second pain is the ignorance and deny of Black Culture Nationalism Activity. The reader of Everyday Use can easily attracted by the big difference between Dee and Maggie. This difference can make readers realized theconflict of blacks’ nowadays wander and the heavy history. Some radical black nationalists feel shame because of the exist of “Maggies”, they want hide this history stage totally. This irresponsible action is no other than the murder of African-Americans’ native culture. The third pain was caused by Mama’s intentional dodge. Mama is one of the most classic Negro women, also the representation of common black people. This kind of dodge can be realized as the dodge of common black people to their suffering history. But at the end of story Mama still insisted to give the quit to Maggie. This can indicate that the common blacks still stand at the right position when they facing their culture. This is the choice of Mama, also Alice Walker.Mama is the most complex character in this short story. To Dee, she was pound of her ability and appearance. Mama wandered Dee can give herself and her family a better life. But she was disappointed by Dee’s performances. This also means that the common were disappointed by Black Culture Nationalism Activity. Mama did a lot effort to know De e’s new life. But when Dee wanted to rap the everyday use of her family to find so-called native culture, Mama was totally despair. To Maggie, Mama’s inchoative a ttitude was dodge and ignore intent deliberately. When Maggie said that “How I look, Mama” Mama just said “Come out into the yard. ”and diverge the talk. Because Mama was helpless when she faced Maggie, just as black common were helpless when talking about the suffering history. At last, one sentence of Maggie disenchant Mama. “I can member Grandma Dee without the quilts.” This words shocked Mama deeply, let her knew who was the best heir of the quilts and the whole family. And this behavior also means that the black common found their sense of culture belonging at last – only the people who can afford the whole history of blacks can be the heirs of the black culture.Alice Walker gave different symbol to these character. Just as one old saying in China, true gold will find its price. Alice Walker leaded black public face up to their true culture, criticized the error occurred when black nationalists looking forward to their native culture root. She gave this activity a new beginning.。