Everyday Use By Alice Walker Analysis

The connection amongst guardians and their youngsters is a standout amongst the most essential human communications. No two mother and girl connections are similar. Moms and little girls give both physical and enthusiastic tend to their young children and little girls. All the while, guardians will impart kids with family esteems and objectives, while showing them the acknowledged standards and estimations of society. This is done with the expectation that guardians will one day see their own kids wind up plainly develop grown-ups, with their own objectives and purposes in life. Mother-little girl connections can be mind boggling, yet in addition loaded with empathy and love. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker the narrator is the

At first, Jing-mei is reluctant to join the club. She is not very good at Mah-Jongg and not particularly interested in hearing her “aunties” talk about the past. Once she accepts, however, she begins to learn more about her mother’s past and about the twin daughters her mother left in China. She also learns about her aunties’ lives and about their daughters. An-mei Hsu recalls how her mother was mistreated by her husband’s family after his death, and how she was disowned by Popo, her mother, for marrying Wu Tsing, who already had a wife and two concubines. When Popo became very sick, An-mei’ s mother nevertheless returned home to take care of her. An-mei later learned from a servant, Yan Chang, that her mother had been raped by Wu Tsing and tricked into the marriage, and that she was physically abused and emotionally tortured by Wu Tsing’s wife and concubines. Ying-ying St. Clair was born to a well-to-do family, and she was brought up with strict rules about how to behave properly. Both her mother and Amah, the maid, believe that a “girl can never ask, only listen”; while a “boy can run and chase dragonflies, because that is his nature . . . a girl should stand still.” (Tan) In this story the love between mother and daughter is seen when the

The story in the first part is situated in present America and narrated by Ruth, the American-born Chinese granddaughter. It recounts Ruth's identity and the tension between Ruth and the mother, LuLing. When the story opens, Ruth is a ghost writer in her forties, who works at home and takes care of Art, her American partner, and Art two daughters from his former marriage. Nothing seems wrong on the surface in terms of her family life and career. The delicate mother-daughter tension between Ruth and LuLing keeps lingering. Flashing back to her childhood and adolescence, Ruth comes to realize that the mother-daughter relationship is rooted in her identity crisis-living as both American and Chinese. Her Chinese mother's silence and frustrations of living in a foreign country and the miscommunication between her mother and herself. More important, just as LuLing is losing her memory, Ruth recovers her mother's autobiography that is representative of the memories written in Chinese. “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.” (Tan Bonesetter’s