In the book "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, the narrator reveals that Maggie has low self esteem and has been disfigured in an accident. The narrator, who is Maggie's mother, feels that Maggie will be the caretaker of the family's heritage. Alice Walker was in fact a fomous writer and she is a woman who did all she could to get women their rights. Maggie Lena Walker, despite her low self esteem, was the first women and first African American bank president in the U.S., she also published a new paper called the St. Luke Herald.