"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
One of things I am finding I need to do as I get older is slow down, despite all the new technology, and look more closely at everything around me. With this in mind, I have decided to reread some of my favorite stories to hopefully see some of what I missed the time before. This week I read "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. This short story is a part of the In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women collection originally published in 1973 by Harcourt Bruce Jovanovich Publishers in Orlando Florida. There is a recent version of this softcover reprinted in 2003 with a new cover. I own both of them because I love Alice Walker’s work and I get to keep one clean and write all over the other! The quotes I use in this post are from the pages of the 1973 version. Alice Walker is a brilliant American writer because she can take an extremely complex subject and make it approachable. Her stories have many layers of meaning. I see "Everyday Use" as a story ...