Dee And Maggie; Night and Day
...hamed of her mother and where they lived, she wrote her mother a letter telling her that she will come see them where they “choose” to live she will come see them but she “would never bring her friends”. Maggie on the other hand, wasn’t formally educated at all and “knows she is not smart”. She is also extremely shy and quiet. When being greeted by Hakin-a-barber she “falls back” to her grandmother’s chair. When her grandmother looked at her she also noticed that she was “trembling” and “perspiring”. And unlike Dee, Maggie never had a problem staying with her mother. When she would read to her mother she never read at a face pace to her; she couldn’t. “Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along goodnaturedly but can’t see well”. Not only are the sisters’ personalities different, but their values are different also. Maggie and Dee both look at heirlooms around the house differently. Dee came back and tried to scour everything in the house of some “worth”. During dinner she began to claim different items around the house as things she needed. “This churn top is what I need”, “and I want the dasher too” are some of the things she said when going on her scavenger hunt around the house. But the one thing that Dee wanted the most is what really expresses the differences in their values, the quilts. When Dee asks her mother for the quilts she is asking for them because of their value. “They’re priceless” she said to her mother after expressing why Maggie shouldn’t have them. But Maggie on the other hand, didn’t really value those items for their monetary worth, the quilt especially. “She can have them, Mamma”, “I can ‘member grandma Dee without the quilts”. Maggie wasn’t interested in the monetary value she wanted sentimental value. That is what mattered to her. Maggie and Dee’s values contrast each other like their beauty features also. Dee was beautiful but Maggie was just a...