Everyday-use-人物分析

Everyday use 人物分析
•Mama -Acts as narrator of the story. She is also known as Mrs.
Johnson. She is a middle-aged or older African-American woman living with her younger daughter, Maggie. Although poor, she is strong and independent as shown by how she interacts with her children, and takes great pride in her way of life. Her appearance is described as someone who is overweight, and someone who has a body that is more like a man's than a woman's. She has strong hands that are worn from a lifetime of work.
•母亲———
•想相互
•Maggie-The younger daughter who stays with Mama while Dee is away at school. Though described by her mother as unintelligent and unattractive, Maggie is a very innocent and humble character. She leads a simple life with her mother and has a traditionally Southern life.
•麦姬———
•麦姬丑陋其一是奴隶制度带给她的身心痛苦。

母亲是这样刻画她的：“你有没有看见过一个跛了腿的动物，比方说一只狗，被一个粗心莽撞的有钱买得起汽车的人压伤后，侧着身子向一个愚昧的对它表示关切的人走去时的样子？〞“其二是黑人文化运动对她的漠视和否认总共和麦姬说了两句话。

谈论搅乳棒时，迪伊哈哈大笑着说：“麦姬的头像大象一样。

〞对于这句没有任何意义的话，我们只能理解为迪伊对麦姬的侮辱。

妈妈唯一能给麦姬的是两床旧的百纳被。

受过高等教育的姐姐却要据为己有，根本没有考虑可怜的妹妹的感受。

可见文化运动的激进分子们对受伤害的妹妹的不在乎也同样说明了他们对黑人的伤痛历史的不在乎。

其三是母亲对她的有意回避。

•Dee/Wangero - Eldest daughter of "Mama" and sister of Maggie. She is very "educated, worldly, and deeply determined"; she doesn't let anything get in the way of getting what she wants ("Everyday Use"). •迪伊———黑人文化民族主义运动的象征
•2060
•Theme：The story addresses itself to the dilemma of African Americans who, in striving to escape prejudice and poverty, risk
a terrible deracination, a sundering from all that has sustained
and defined them.
•Walker is saying that true art not only represents its culture, but is an inseparable part of that culture. The manner in which the quilts are treated shows Walker's view of how art should be treated •在这篇短篇小说中，沃克使用了象征、比照、隐喻和明喻等修辞手法，揭示了由白人强势文化冲击所造成的黑人心灵文化迷失的现象，生动准确地反映了黑人在强势文化冲击下的不同态度。

作者通过赋予三位女性不同的象征意义，向读者揭示了：美。