人物分析
After I have learnt the Everyday Use, the mother’s image is deeply impressed in my mind. The author is Alice Walker. She is one of the minority writers recognized and appreciated by the majority of people. As a black women writer, her background provides the sources of her work, especially work describing colored people’s life.
First of all, I want to analysis her from the family character.She is tje mother of two different quality girls.On the one hand, Dee is the healthy one. She has an appearance which admired by most people. Just as the author says" Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. "Dee is not only excellent in her outlook, but also she has a good brain. And she is good at showing herself to others. But, Maggie is not quite healthy as her sister. Just as the author says in the beginning part of the work. She is shy and lack of confidence. Most of time, Maggie stands behind her mother. On the other hand, Dee has great curiosity about white culture and modern society, but Maggie is the traditional one. Even the two daughters are quite different, mama treats them as equal. She likes them all very sincerely. Before Dee comes back home,mama dreams one day she could appear on the TV show. It looks like mama wants her daughter Dee feels proud of her. "Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. "But it is just a dream, in reality, she introduces herself as “a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working ha nds.”Maggie who is her little daughter always living with her. For most parents' view, the little child should pay more attention. In the last part of the author's work, when Dee and Maggie are fighting for the quilt. The mama snatches the quilts from Dee and offer her instead some of the machine-stitched ones, which Dee does not want. Maybe it is the only and first time, Maggie wins. But it doesn't mean she dislike Dee, she just is puzzled that why Dee is so curiosity about the quilts. In mama's view, Dee is reasonable. From this I know, mama's way of love for the two daughters is different, but she loves them deeply. She wants them all have a happy family.
The mother is a traditional black woman. She is shy and not dare to face the unknown white man."I never had an education myself. After second grade the school
was closed down. Don't ask my why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now."Mama never has an education herself. In her words, she indicates that the black people's right has been seriously invaded. " I used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way."Mama's rib is been hurt very harm. But she thinks it is not the cow's fault, it's because her way of milking. She is quite kind and reasonable. "When she comes I will meet—but there they are!" Mama is so surprised and delighted to see her daughter Dee comes back home. After Dee is at home, she told mama, "Not Dee,Wangero Leewani Ka Kemanjo! "At first, I think the mama must be angry for the girl changed her name by herself. But to my astonishment, mama trys her best to call the new name. She just tells to her daughter, "Why shouldn't I? " She asked."If that's what you want us to call you,we'll call you."After I read this, I know she is a brilliant mother. She could accept Dee to use her new name Wangero, which has no “bad” history. As we all know that Dee is the symbol of the new culture. All these actions show us that she is a little bit like the white culture, or somehow, she is curious about it. From all this, we can get that the Mama in the fiction is a black woman who is protecting the Black Culture and the true meaning of black art. In Maggie and Mama’s opinion, the things which they are using everyday is the black art, and the true meaning of black art is not to show, but to use everyday use everyday.。
