Literary Analysis

Mama is the narrator of the story. She is the mother of Dee and Maggie. She is a tough and proud woman living in the countryside. She can do everything a male farmer does and is proud because of it. Mama dislike the city because she felt like the city people had think of them as inferiority but she had to do all the dirty work for them. The characters in the story are all defined through Mama because she is the narrator of the story. Because all the characters are being shown by only 1 character, it can and most likely will be biased. Mama thinks sending Dee to study in city is a bad idea because when Dee came back, Mama felt insulted when Dee read and tell her things that she didn't know. Maybe Dee wasn't trying to showoff but Mama had felt this way because after Dee come back from the city, she is suddenly smarter and knows more things than Mama. Mama also thinks that Dee hates the house, she said she should dance beside the burning house of theirs if she hated it so much. Maggie, on the other hand, is extremely shy. She got burnt in the fire of their old house and if shy ever since.She moves sideways and doesn't look people in the eye because she is ashamed of herself because of the scar on her. The three unique characters makes this story interesting. Mama's dream about going on a show and surprisingly meeting Dee shows that despite disliking Dee because she is citified, she still loves Dee.