Symbolism is a symbol of whatever the object or subject represents. Any small object can be used as a symbol of anything. As in mathematics, for example, shapes and numbers symbolize everything that can be. Furthermore, the American flag has fifty stars, representing 50 states. Additionally, colors can be used as symbols. Especially in the person, you can see his true color on how he is or behaves. Like angry red, sad blue, happy green, dark black, love purple, anything represents something. This is most likely your mood. Additionally, outdoor signs have symbols. Such as the signs you see on the road, freeway, ditches, restaurants, shops, etc. Most likely anywhere, you just need to pay more attention to what's outdoors and what's around you. In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker she talks about a mother named Mama Johnson who has two daughters who are not very similar. Her older daughter Dee, she's very outgoing, beautiful, but she's someone who doesn't understand her heritage, and her younger daughter Maggie who is very shy and not very outgoing, but she really truly understands her heritage. They don't really talk to each other, not since the incident about what happened to their last house that burned down. Dee finally, after who knows how many years, comes back and visits her mother and Maggie just to ask for some of her old things that they just used to show her old culture where she came from. Then she wants to get some quilts her grandmother made and that her mother promised Maggie when she got married. Argument begins between the mother and Dee, and the mother realizes that Dee cannot get everything she wants and decides to make a change and refuse her request. A variety of characters and objects that describe symbolism in "Everyday Use".... .. middle of paper ...... in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker have multiple ideas of symbolism to describe each of them in what which they symbolize. Works Cited Bmad, Nick. “Symbolism in the “everyday use” of walkers.” Enote. Np, July 4, 2007.Web. March 7, 2014.Eshbough. "A Literary Analysis of Alice Walker's Short Story 'Everyday Use'." YAHOO! VOICES. Yahoo, Inc., August 21, 2008. Web. March 17, 2014Moore, Julie. “Heritage and Symbolism in Everyday Use of Alice Walker.” YAHOO! VOICES. Np, May 29, 2007. Web. March 17, 2014. Spark Notes Editors. "Themes, mythology and symbol". Notes of sparkle. Spark Notes LLC, Nd, Web. March 17, 2014. Velazquez, Juan R. “Characterization and Symbolism in Everyday Use of Alice Walker.” Lone Star. Np, nd Web. March 17, 2014. White, David. “‘Everyday Use’: Defining African American Heritage.” Luminary. Anniina Jokinen, 19 September 2002. Web. 17 March 2014.