The contrast of Eveline and Dee

Both Eveline form James Joyce’s “Eveline” and Dee from Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” face obstacles in their young age. However, their decisions and actions turn out differently.  Eveline is exhausted and too tired to take care of her family and house. She has to endure father’s abuse and works hard to keep her house together. She is a poor young lady and the only way to escape her severe circumstance is running away with Frank, a sailor from another continent.  Walker’s Dee is also poor and from African American family.  Dee’s sister is not bright, and her mom didn’t finish second grade. She is so desperate to escape home and live her own life. As a poor young African American girl, she has to work hard to study at college. Eveline and Dee, two characters from different stories, want to leave their home and start new lives. The decisions are different. Eveline is decided to stay home and Dee leaves her family to go to college. Their decisions illustrate each  one’s different  priority and love for family. How hard we try to analyze Eveline’s  psychological conflict to get the reason of her decision, It be must love and duty  to her family.  She sacrifice’s her happiness or the chance of new life for family. Dee chooses her new life and opportunity. Now, She can appreciates her African American heritage, but she can’t feel the real heritage in her blood, the family. There are two females who both don’t like their house and struggle in their lives to live better life, but their decisions are not same. When Eveline is about to get on the boat she still see her family behind her back, but Dee can not see her family living in the humble house.

“Anyway” Mother Teresa

Anyway

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

“Anyway” Mother Teresa

그렇다 결국 나의 마지막날에 내가 대면 해야 할 분은 오직 하나님

지금나의 마음을 어지럽히는 그들은  나와는 아무 상관이 없다.

어쨋거나, 용서하고, 친절하고,성공해야 하고, 무언가를 해내야 하고, 행복해야 한다. 내가 가진 최선으로 베풀어야 한다.

One Symbol from “Everyday Use”

Alice Walker uses many symbols in “Everyday Use” such as a butter churn, Dee’s name, a yard and an imaginary TV show.  However, the quilt is the most important symbol in this short story because it is related to the title. The quit, handed down from Grandma Dee and Big Dee, is unique and different from other quilts.  Dee wants have the quilt because “[Grandma] did all this stitching by hand.”(Walker 65) Dee believes that she is the only person who can understand and appreciate the value of the quilt, the family heritage, among the family.  She says “[Maggie] would probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.” (Walker 66) There is a one symbol, the quilt, and the two sisters have different views about how to appreciate and protect it. Dee wants to protect the quilt from “everyday use” because she thinks that the quilt contains the African-American heritage. Dee puts the quilt, the family or African-American heritage, before her family, but Maggie thinks the quilt is just another quilt and appreciates the quilt in a different way. She can feel and enjoy her heritage in her everyday life. She belongs to the family heritage and lives in it. She is willing to give up the quilt because “[She] can ‘member Grandma Dee without the quilts.” (Walker 66) Dee wants to protect the symbol of family heritage to hang it on the wall. However, she wants to stay out of her family life. She wants to appreciate the heritage as if she is an observer in the history museum. Alice Walker uses the quilt, one of many symbols in this story, to show different ways of appreciating the heritage.