Literary Analysis The mother, narrator, in Alice Walkers’ “Everyday Use,” is a smart woman, yet is portrayed to be just the opposite due to lack of education. Education is not what makes an individual intelligent; it’s life’s stories and experiences, which this mother has much of. She is an honest and caring soul who recognizes and comes true with her deepest emotions. As the mother of two, this “large, big boned woman with, …showed first 75 words of 559 total…

…showed last 75 words of 559 total…Maggie lived through and experienced first hand, family emotion and history. This story shows how this mother sought out after her priorities in life and became a character of admiration. All of her descriptions are of negative context in the former half of the story, which shows her outlook on what has transcribed in her lifetime. This climactic time period enlightened her and brought out the woman who was always inside begging to come out.