文档介绍：Everyday Use
for Your Grandmama
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part 1--analysis of three major characters
Mama
Dee
Maggie

part 2 ---conclusion and evaluation
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An Analysis on Mama (Mrs Johnson)
Mama is the narrator of the story. She is a middle-aged or older African-American woman living with her younger daughter, Maggie. Although poor, she is strong and independent, and takes great pride in her way of life.
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From the lesson ,we also can find apart from physical strength, mama also shows mental toughness
she went to the people of her church and raised money to send her gifted daughter to a school in Augusta. And she can clearly distinguish between dream and reality. This contributes to the good-hearted down-to-earth(实际的） image the reader gets of her.
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But the way she presents herself to us shows that she is dissatisfied. She dreams of being “brought together” with Dee again, being given all the appreciation and thankfulness she has always been refused by her.
The other reason for her to be dissatisfied is that the arrival of Dee reminds her of her weaknesses. She says for example that she could never look “a strange white man in the eye”, that she has “talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.”
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The character of Dee (Wangero)
Dee is Mrs Johnson's older daughter. She is attractive, sophisticated, and well-educated . She is also very selfish; she may even have caused the fire that disfigured（损害） her sister. Mrs Johnson calls her "Dee/Wangero".
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Besides Dee is dominant, lucky ,aggressive and is bright confident and beautiful and likes to produce herself-”hesitation is not part of her nature” she cares much about the outer appearance.” At 16 she had a style of her own and knew what style was”.
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Dee, is deeply influenced by the white people’s culture though from a black family. S