Everyday_Use

Everyday Use Everyday Use In Alice Walker’s, Everyday Use, the point of view is that of the mother’s. She is the narrator. She is also what we’d call a protagonist. A hero in a way. She is telling the story from her perspective, so we see her children the way she sees them. As with most stories, there is a protagonist and an antagonist. In this story, the antagonist is Dee, the narrator’s oldest daughter. Dee does her own thing and is a bit of a rebel. Perhaps just an average African American teenager of the 1970’s, trying to find her place in the world, but her mother thinks differently. She sees Dee as a rebellious teen, and sometimes dreams of having one of those T.V. mother-daughter relationships with her daughter. As with any protagonist/antagonist relationships, the antagonist creates a problem for the protagonist. Dee creates a problem for her mother by the way she begins to act around her new boyfriend and in other ways. Dee decides to change her name, dee, way, new, mother, problem, sees, said, quilts, protagonist, maggie, antagonist, world, story, relationships, one, once, name, everyday, didn’t, decides, daughter, creates, change, because, wouldn’t, word, we’d, ways, walker’s, view, very, use, two, tv, trying, thinks, thing, that’s, tells, telling, teenager, teen, take, style, stories, stand, sometimes, something, sit, says