Dee and
Maggie are sisters in 's short story, "." Dee has "found" her African roots,
and wants nothing to do with her African-American heritagepassed down by
ancestors who worked tirelessly to survive in a foreign land and provide a better life for their
children.
Dee is very cosmopolitan, has taken an African name and dresses in
authentic African garb. She has been formally educated, while her mother and sister live in the
tiny shack "back home." Dee is, without question, a brat. The mother (the narrator)
describes Dee.
I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But
that was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She
used to read to us...She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge
we didn't need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at
just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.
Dee is extremely self-centered, thinking only how her family...
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