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The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...

Imagery Comparison in Alice Walker's 'The Flowers' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...

Walker: “Everyday Use”

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

The Language and the Quilt in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

Alice Walker’s Coming Apart

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

A Review of Everyday Use

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

Feminine Voice in Walker’s The Color Purple

In a novel in which the narrator is recounting the entirety of the action after the fact, the narrator already knows everything th...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

Everyday Use by Alice Walker

This essay presents an analysis of "Everyday Use, " a short story, by Alice Walker. Nine pages in length, seven sources are cited....

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and Revelation

to her" (2274). Maggie had a disfiguring accident as a child, the result of the familys home burning to the ground. As her mothe...

Charlotte Pierce Baker and Houston A. Baker's Analysis of Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' Reviewed

A review of this critical analysis of the short story 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker is presented in seven pages. There are no ot...

Three Short Stories Set in the American South

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

Fashion and Status in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...

A Comparative Analysis of In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, Arts in the Contact Zone and The Hundred Secret Senses

In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...

Powerful Women and Literature

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

Everyday Use and Maggie

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

Compare and Contrast: Welty's Why I Live at the P.O. and Walker's Everyday Use

been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...

Mind and Body in the Works of Judith Ortiz Cofer and Alice Walker

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

Switching Partners

yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...

Men in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...

Analysis of Hemingway's, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...

Walker's To Hell With Dying

the story, the children would be summoned, and the narrators father would let them go, saying something to the effect of "to hell ...