This story reminds me of my great-grandparents estate sale. Estate sales seem to bring all kinds of people out of the woodwork. My family attened, because we hoped to each purchase a piece of my great-grandparents legacy. There were also antiquers who attended hoping to find different antique treasures to add to their collections or display in their homes. Another group of people showed up specifially to purchase the farm equipment and land. Lastly, there were the people I like to call the scavengers. The scavengers were hoping to buy items cheap at the estate auction so they could turn around and sell for a profit. Throughout the day, they would talk down certain items to other interested people so that no one would bid. It was strange seeing so many different people look at your families possesion with so many different desires. Some items which held sentimental value to us, was look at as junk by the others.
In Everyday Use, Maggie sees the quilts and other items for what they are. She will use them in the way they were created to be made. Her sister Dee would make them displays, as well as use them to remember the past and preserve that way of life. Neither are in the wrong! All the poeple at the estate auction were there with perfectly sincere intentions, even though some of their intention may have seemed frusterating to us as the family. When you read this story, part of you wants to dislike Dee, but at the same time you must realize that in reality both desires are truly okay.
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