In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use," Walker describes a mother’s relationship with her two daughters. She explains how Dee/Wangero has lost the sight of the fact that she was raised in poverty and is now living in denial; a fantasy world. In the meanwhile, Dee learns about own independence, determination to explore and loses respect for her original heritage. Dee allowed her true self to be reviled while searching for her own independence. From the time Dee is a child, she was a child she found a way to make her difference from her family. “At the age of sixteen she had a style of her own” (Walker 110). Dee’s style is more than the clothes she puts on or the hairstyles she wears. Dee dresses to say that she is an individual one with her own thoughts. Dee enjoys her education. She loves reading to her mother and sister. The mother says, “The serious way she would read, to shove us away for the moment” (Walker 110). The passion reviled in Dee’s voice is more of a curiosity thinking what else was in the world beyond her home. Dee’s curiosity to pull her in an opposite direction causes her to become determine to explore other things rather than what she has. As Dee watches her family’s home burn, this somehow made Dee very happy. The mother says “we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school,” Dee changed her feelings towards her sister (Walker 110). Dee decides that she is better than her Maggie because of her intelligence. Although, Maggie isn’t very intelligent in that area she knew the things that are important. When Dee wanted the quilts, Dee says “She can make some more she knows how to quilt” (Walker 114). Dee placed her interest in things she sees as important, because her determination is elsewhere. Dee’s return is expected to be happy for someone not seeing their family over the years, but instead she returns with a total lack of respect for her family. D