Question

In "Everyday Use," the author describes Maggie as "chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle." Which sentence about Dee (Wangero) provides contrast to these traits?

A. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts.
B. . . . she puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and kisses me on the forehead.
C. She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me.
D. She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, a short story written in the late 1960s, is a story of cultural discrepancies in the American society of the 50s and 60s caused by racial issues. In great contrast with Dee, the younger sister Maggie is a more simplistic and kind-hearted person in Alice Walker’s short story Everyday Use.