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Quilts In Alice Walker's 'Family Or Fortune'
Anatoly Kukharets
Interpretive Response #1
Family or Fortune This story to me is about two sisters, one who is loyal but broken, and the other that is carefree and haughty. They each wanted the quilts that their mother was to hand down to them. Quilts that were sewn together by their grandma, and were a literary symbol. They were to be handed down to the next generation family member, to carry on the hardworking and resilient character that they stood for. Dee was the haughty sister. She felt she deserved and was owed anything and everything she wanted. Throughout her life she didn 't get to hear the word No, and it was if it didn 't exist for her, she always got what she wanted. As her sister imagined, "She thinks her sister has held …show more content…
She wouldn 't ever leave her mothers side and was completely loyal to her family, or perhaps feared the possibility of leaving. She was like an injured animal, content with where she was and grateful for what she had. "Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind to them? That is the way Maggie walks." (Walker 461) She accepted the way things were, she accepted the fact that she didnt get the good looks or witty tongue like her sister Dee. Maggie was hardworking and dutiful, much like her mother, and …show more content…
I think their mother was irked by this. "I did something I never had done before." (Walker 468) Their mother finally stood up for her daughter Maggie, she could see the injustice and dishonest way Maggie was being treated. The way her daughter, who stayed by her side, loyal, always yielding, without any expectation of better treatment, just relinquished her rights to the quilts. Their mother finally got the courage to stand up to her "wonderfully created" daughter Dee, and gave the quilts to
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