Symbolism in everyday use by Alice Walker History in the making Inheritance is something that comes to or belongs to someone by reason of birth. That may be how it's defined in the dictionary, but everyone has their own beliefs and ideas about what shapes their heritage. In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, these different points of view are very evident in the way Dee (Wangero) and Mrs. Johnson (Mama) see the world and in the discrepancy over who will inherit the family's quilts. Symbolisms such as certain objects, their courtyard and different characters, are all used to represent the main theme that heritage is something to always be proud of. The main objects of topic throughout the story are the quilts that symbolize the African American woman. history. Susan Farrell, a critic of many narratives, describes the daily lives of African American women by saying that "weaving and sewing have often been obligatory jobs; women have historically endowed their work with special meaning and significance" and have now embraced it as part of their culture. The two quilts that Dee wanted "had been put together by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and I [mother] had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them" (par. 55) proving that these quilts were more valuable as you remember they were just blankets. The quilt fabrics “were scraps of clothes that Grandma Dee had worn fifty-odd years ago. Bits and pieces of Grandpa Jarrell's paisley shirts. And a tiny faded blue piece, more or less the piece of a matchbox, that came from great-grandfather Ezra's uniform that he wore during the Civil War" (par. 55) providing further evidence that these are not just fragments, but they became pieces of family history. The q... in the center of the card... the large courtyard and the characters are all symbols that conveyed the theme that you must always love your heritage Dee will return to the city and support hers broader perspective of all blacks while Mom will stick to the narrower confines of her family history. The one young woman (Maggie) who has yet to be swallowed up by the opinions of others will be the one who insists on both stories as if they were one. alone: ​​When Maggie finally smiles "a real smile" at the end of the story as she and her mother watch Dee's film the car disappears in a cloud of dust, it is because she knows that her mother's sacred recognition of the sacred status of the daughter scarred as a quilt is the best gift if a woman in difficulty to the fragmented goddess of the present.' (Piedmont-Marton)This story full of symbols will carry on from generation to generation because as things change, people and their vision of life also change.