外婆的日用家沉当人物分析.pptVIP

part 1--analysis of three major characters Mama Dee Maggie part 2 ---conclusion and evaluation From the lesson ,we also can find apart from physical strength, mama also shows mental toughness she went to the people of her church and raised money to send her gifted daughter to a school in Augusta. And she can clearly distinguish between dream and reality. This contributes to the good-hearted down-to-earth(实际的） image the reader gets of her. But the way she presents herself to us shows that she is dissatisfied. She dreams of being “brought together” with Dee again, being given all the appreciation and thankfulness she has always been refused by her. The other reason for her to be dissatisfied is that the arrival of Dee reminds her of her weaknesses. She says for example that she could never look “a strange white man in the eye”, that she has “talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.” Besides Dee is dominant, lucky ,aggressive and determined.She is bright confident and beautiful and likes to produce herself-”hesitation is not part of her nature” she cares much about the outer appearance.” At 16 she had a style of her own and knew what style was”. Dee, is deeply influenced by the white people’s culture though from a black family. She is, in the core, as ambitious and aggressive as a white person. Several years of college education entitled her to look down upon her hometown from the standing point of city civilization. She hates almost all that she was born with: the poor old house, stout(矮胖的) mother, her lame（跛足的） sister, and a lot else Dee is not a single-sided person However materialistic（唯物主义的） she is, she knows that she cannot change her color. Thus she sometimes tries to find her identity from what she thinks is still worth appreciation of the black culture For example, the bench, the churn（搅乳器）, the dasher(搅乳棒