Character Analysis of Maggie Johnson in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

When two daughters are raised alike yet live differently, there is a fine line of distinction between the traits and aspirations of the two, as Alice Walker drew portraits of three women in a family in "Everyday Use". Maggie Johnson was the youngest of the two daughters, and her older sister Dee had gone to college and hadn't been home in over a decade. Maggie stayed at her mother's side, to make a life for …

…she excepted the traits that she was born with and developed herself as a person in the Johnson family. She was Dee's opposite, and although Dee went off to college to make herself someone else, Maggie stayed home to simply make herself who she truly was at heart. Works Cited Walker, Alice. "Everyday Use." Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing.Compact ed. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. New Jersey. Prentice,1998. 73-78.