Furthermore, throughout the story Dee’s characters changes but her liking for objects stayed the same. She changed what objects she liked from having nice clothes to her family’s household objects. An example of Dee’s character changing from liking nice clothes to her family’s household objects is when she was asking her mother for her grandmother’s quilts. This is quite obvious when her mother said to talk the other quilt but she wanted the ones that her grandmother made with “pieces of [her] dresses [she] use to wear. She did all the stitching by hand” (Walker 399). When in actually her mother had “promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas” (Walker 400). Afterwards Dee mentioned to her mother that “Maggie can’t