Characters In Alice Walker's Everyday Use

In Cowert says, Walker inspects in the short story “Everyday Use” that how African American was disconnecting their culture and tradition. Dee/Wangero's character proves the statements. She is the one main character in the story who changed over time. She went out for schooling and changed her lifestyle. She doesn't live her life as her mother and sister Maggie live. According to Dee/Wangero, her mother and Maggie is still old-fashioned, living with their roots, and culture. Dee changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo which is impressive and modern according to her. Walker states that: A dress down to the ground, the this hit weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellow and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun. I fell my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings, too, gold and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noise when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. (Walker 561) Dee/Wangero dressing sense was different from her mother and Maggie's clothing. Her dress was long with big floral print. She was wearing fancy jewelry and her big sunglasses. Walker gave details of Dee/Wangero's physical traits by which we can assume that Dee/Wangero's looks Classy by her clothing sense. She starts taking the picture after getting

Hence the grandmother (sic!) in "Everyday Use" is amazed that Dee would give up her name for the name Wangero. For Dee was the name of her great-grandmother, a woman who had kept her family together against all odds. Wangero might have sounded authentically African but it had no relationship to a person she knew, nor to the personal history that sustained