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Unreliable Siblings:(Dee / Wangero) "Maggie can't appreciate these quilts... She'd probably be backward enough to put them into everyday use"(Walker 63).In "Everyday" by Alice Walker Use "let's compare two sisters, Dee/Wangero and Maggie. Both of these sisters were raised by the same kind-hearted women, known as Mama or the narrator. Although they are sisters and are Raised in the same family, Maggie and Dee are very different from each other; they think and act independently. Furthermore, their contrasting characters serve as symbols to convey the overall theme of the story sisters differ. Throughout the story readers learn that Maggie is not as attractive as Dee. “Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure” (Walker 56). therefore her physical beauty surpasses that of Maggie. But, unlike Maggie, Dee is known for her sense of style and efforts to remain a top fashionista. Even if this means Dee has to accept counts in her hands and creates her own clothes. «At sixteen he had it...