Irony In Alice Walker's Everyday Use

Dee is a young, headstrong woman, who believes she deserves better than what her mother could ever give her. She reads to her mother and sister to show off the education her mother and church paid for. Dee doesn’t accept she came from, yet she’ll claim how proud she is of her heritage. this can be seen as situational irony, like when she wanted the quilts she didn’t want at college. Dee, is spoiled, hypocritical, and conceited due to her life experiences. Dee returns with her friend, Asalamalakim, and has converted to Muslim. She is ashamed of her name that has run in the family since the civil war. Her new name is Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo, yet she preaches to her mother about honoring their heritage. She loves the idea of a hard working family, but would never lower herself to that level, and looks down on that life. she came to visit her mother and tried to take the thing she wanted, not thinking her mother would stop her. She thinks she's smarter than her mother and stubbornly believes she knows best. She constantly gets what she want and has all her life. Dee is spoiled by her mother until this day, which her mother refuses to give her the quilts

The quote "Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use." develops situational irony. Wangero said Maggie will put them to everyday use, which is what they are made for, but she wants to hang them on her wall as relics. Maggie is the one who will appreciate them not Dee, who never wanted them before. Dee, unlike Maggie, never learn to quilt from Grandma Dee or Big Dee, their Aunt Dicie, and never liked the idea of hard labor. So how could Dee appreciate any of the “relic” she is taking to decorate her