Everyday Use
In lines 135-145. How does Dee and her boyfriend contrast with Mama and Maggie
How do Dee and her boyfriend contrast with Mama and Maggie?
How do Dee and her boyfriend contrast with Mama and Maggie?
Dee and her boyfriend see Dee's past as outdated and a testament to black struggle of the past. They do not consider that Mama and Maggie use the house and its contents in the present. Dee and Hakim-a-barber want to fetishize and even culturally appropriate the things that Mama and Dee use to survive as well as identify with.