"Everyday Use"

The two sisters in this story, Maggie and Dee, seem to me to be rivals. One, always getting the mother's attention and approval, and the other never receiving acceptance and approval from her mother; always feeling like she's not good enough. Since the fire in their old house, Maggie has been badly bruised, I think both physically and mentally, but now that it's time for both Dee and Maggie to get married, there's this conflict of who will get the quilt from their mother. Maggie had been promised that she would receive it, but now that it's coming down to it, Dee wants it. I think that Dee thinks her mother will drop Maggie and give it to her, but we see that for the first time, her mother really comes to her defense and keeps her promise of giving the quilt to Maggie.