Read With a Purpose

The conflict between Mama and Dee is between their family and is about family tradition, or heritage. Mama honors the family tradition of their house but because Dee does not live in the countryside with Mama and Maggie, she is citified. Dee lives in the urban and has a different lifestyle there but Mama doesn't understand and is upset about Dee not following their family tradition. Take the quilt as an example, Dee took the quilt as a decoration to show that she had come from the countryside and she had worked her way to what she is now. The quilt is made to keep her warm and not to showoff and Mama is angry about this. Mama is angry because she is showing off the quilt that should be part of the family tradition to keep her warm. Mama is also angry because at first Dee doesn't even care or want the quilt and now because she needs to showoff, she wants the quilt that her family had made for her to keep warm. Mama thinks if Maggie had the quilt it would be better because Maggie, who follows the tradition very well, will make more quilt and leave them as heritage to the next generation of the family. Maggie truly understands the quilt ore than just a decoration and something to showoff. Mama have always believed that Dee had been too urbanized and should lave the family heritae, the quilt, to Maggie.