Everyday Use

Thi story as told by the mother, is about two sisters who born and raised in the south. One daughter Maggie grows up to stay at home living in the south with her mama, while her sister Dee, moves away to the big city, gets an education and becomes a big shot. This story is basically showing us two options of growing up. While one sister stays home close to her roots values her family, her heritage and her upbringing, the other wants nothing to do with any of it. She moves away only to visit,and act like a tourist who's never belonged there. I think its sad what happened to Dee. That she was so far removed from everything that she was, because although she tries to show that shes happy and better off than her mama and sister, it seems to me like she is the less fortunate one. It seems like she doesnt have a place she calls home, yet when she comes back she is so cold and horrible that her own family cant even invite her back in.

The Worn Path

The grandmother seems not well to me, like she has some sort of disease that comes with old age such as Alzheimer disease or something along those lines. I cant tell if her memory and mind really fail her or if all along she was just pretending in order to get the money to buy her grandson the paper windmill. She seems like she is a smart woman who knows how to get what she wants when she wants from who she wants. The imagery is so precise in the story that you could almost see Phoenix as if she is in real life standing right in front of you.