Part one of term paper
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, written in 1944, narrates the story of black family composed of a Mother and her two daughters: Maggie and Dee. Dee is the oldest one. A point that we can easily notice as the story is developed is that Maggie is extremely jealous of her sister. She believes that her sister has a better life than she does. The ...

Part two of term paper
... is extremely jealous of her sister; she does not like the presence of Dee in her house. As her mother says in the story, " Maggie will be nervous until her sister goes…eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe." She believes that her sister gets everything she wants; all she needs to do is ask somebody for what she wants. She thinks that, " no is a word that the world never learned to say to her." From her point of view, Dee controls the world with her hands; she can do whatever she wan ...