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Character Analysis in Alice Walkers Everyday Use Mama Mama, the narrator of the story, who is strong, hardworking as well as stern, she has many good qualities of the traditional black women. Unlike her young daughter, Maggie, she has her own outlook on life and values, even though she is a black woman and doesn’t have a good education. In the beginning of the article, we can see she also long for the meeting with her older daughter, because she and Dee sweep the yard so clean and wavy to wait for Dee. She even imagines that one day she and Dee could go for a popular TV show before she sees Dee, it tells us that she expects that Dee could respect and love her like other girls who show to their mothers. In the climax of the essay, Dee wants to rob the family heirloom, the quilts, which she had promised to give Maggie as her dowry. This time, she doesn’t meet the demand of Dee. As a mother, she is fair to her two daughters, even Dee and Maggie is as different as heaven and earth. At last, she even get angry with Dee, she couldn’t understand why Dee is so greedy and peacockish. In conclusion, Mama is a uneducated but practical character, she standing for the traditional black women in that stage. Dee Dee is the object of jealousy, awe, and agitation among her family members, while as an individual she searches for personal meaning and a stronger sense of self. She get a good education. She is arrogant and always feels that she should enter into the white world, so she leaves her country and keeps on her pursuit in the big city. Actually, Dee is a tragic character, she is an ambivalent syntheses. On one hand, indeed, she doesn’t integrate into the white society. On the other hand, she has abandoned the old ideology and costumes of the traditional black people. Superficially, she own fashionable clothes and valuable jewelry, it seems that she has got the life what she has been pursuing for a long time. Actually, she couldn’t get the sense of belonging and sense of sec