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Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"

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of Walkers content and structural style. It is with this strength and power that Walkers women are able to cope with extreme situations and make their lives more worthwhile.  Bibliography lists 5 sources. TLCEvDay.rtf ALICE WALKERS "EVERYDAY USE" by (c) November 2001 -- for more information on using  this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Powerful women are a rare breed, and few are as powerful as Alice Walkers female characters.  Such rarity is clearly depicted in one particularly outstanding story entitled Everyday Use. While the narrators strength is unmatched throughout the tale, it shares a common thread of power  that is typical of Walkers content and structural style. It is with this strength and power that Walkers women are able to cope with extreme situations and make their  lives more worthwhile. II. STRENGTH AND POWER Conspicuously absent in all of Walkers stories is the weak and fragile persona; instead, her  women represent what is fashioned after ones burning desire for self-preservation. Everyday Use is a prime example of how such yearning can turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure.  A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how society discards that which is deemed worthless, much the same way the fabric remnants are treated that ultimately comprises  the quilt. "If it seems clear that the popularity of the quilt owes much to writers like Walker, one needs to ask, in turn, whether Walkers story would enjoy  its current status if the quilt itself had not become such a privileged symbol" (Whitsitt 443). The fabrics spirit and strength, matched also with its beauty and memory, mirror