Everday Use #6

In this story, I don't find Dee to be wholly unsympathetic, only partially. I feel like she has gone through some change having gone off to college and has some new perspective. However, since she is used to getting what she wants, she expects her mother to just comply with this new view and all Dee's wants and needs. I don' think that the mother's victory was altogether positive either because as a result, she creates a greater void between her and Dee. Even though she finally says no, she also turns her back on what her daughter is trying to say. In the final scene between Maggie and her mother, the ambivalence is in the fact that the mother realizes the potential that Maggie can never fully reach. However, she finally sees the potential she has and she sees more than just deformation in her. This ambivalence leads to some closeness, but also an epiphany equaling her speaking against Dee. These actions within the novel present changing views throughout generations of the African-American culture and express the separation these opinions caused.