Heritage and Wooded Legs

As I read "Everyday Use" I was expecting for the eldest daughter, Dee, to end up leaving with the two quilts she came home to attain from her mother. Her own mother believed Dee had grown accustomed to never hearing no as a response to any request she made, and it surprised me that her mother chose this time to stand up to Dee. People who think the world should be given to them are so obnoxious, and it was nice for her mother, however late she started, to begin telling Dee that she couldn't always get what she wanted. How dare Dee come into her mother's house telling her mother and sister, Maggie, that they needed to get with the times and change. Maybe they didn't want to change, and why should they? If their life was going how they wanted it to and wasn't hurting anybody else, they should do just what they wanted to do. Dee is a spoiled hypocrite and could benefit from learning some manners.

As for Joy, who is another spoiled cry-baby, she could benefit from a major attitude adjustment. I realize she was living at home with her mother (even though Joy was in her early thirties) because of her failing health and that she wasn't able to work, but she was a lazy, stuck-up, unpleasant lady. I am still uncertain as to why she was so blatantly rude to the people in her life. I thought when she was duped into "giving" her leg away that she deserved it. Maybe if she would have stopped thinking she was better than and smarter than just about everybody then she would have been able to see that Manley was interested in something other than her. I'm curious about how she so easily believed that he loved her, when she was described as basically an unattractive woman and he was a young good-looking man. I know looks aren't everything, but since all the two really did was look at each other before Manley declared his love for her you'd think she would know he didn't actually love her. That just proves she wrongly believes she is smarter than most others; she fell for the "I love you" trick after about a day of knowing the guy.