文档介绍：外婆的日用家当人物分析
Dee, is deeply influenced by the white people’s culture though from a black family. She is, in the coreister arrives at home, she attempt to make a dash for the house ” and when her sister’s boyfriend greet her , her reflection.” He moves to hug maggie but she falls back, right up against the back of my chair. I feel her trembling there and when I look up I see the perspiration falling off her chin. ”
She has a “thin body” . she “knows she is not bright” and bears severe scars on her arms and legs from a fire that burned the Johnsons’ earlier house to the ground .
She seems to be quite uneducated although Mrs. Johnson tells us that “sometimes Maggie reads to her” .
But in contrast to Dee, Maggie loves her family and knows about its history and traditions. Maggie wanted the quilt because she could remember her grandma better, who taught her to do needle work. 　 While Dee want the quilt because she wanted to get some valuable heritages of the family, mainly out of her vanity(浮华).
conclusion and evaluation
Part 2
Dee 叛逆者bright, confident ,smart ，beautiful, well-educated likes to produce herself
Mother 捍卫者 physical strength, mental toughness,
the good-hearted, down-to-earth
Maggie继承者 lack of self-confidence, shy ,conservative , inheriting Africa American culture
Mother seems to range between them, both Maggie’s conservative, and quiet side and Dee’s independence, strong side.
mother
black, a working woman, big and strong,
received little education
knew her position
lived at home with Maggie
disliked Dee
Dee
skin (lighter)
well-educated (attend college)
at 16 she had a style of her own
had few friends
fault-finding
never accept “No”
An Evaluation of Dee
Dee obviously holds a central position in Mama’s world. The story begins with the line “I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon.”
Thus, "The mood at the story's beginning is one of ritualistic （仪式的）waiting," of preparati