"" byexplains the importance of family relationships. Mama or Mrs. Johnson
narrates the story. She is an uneducated yet hardworking African-American mother of two
daughters. She describes herself:
I am a large, big boned
woman with rough, man working hands. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My
daughter [Dee] would like for me to be 100 pounds lighter and my skin like an uncooked barley
pancake.
Events in the story are going to force Mama to
reevaluate her attitude toward her daughters. As a dynamic character, she will change and stand
up for one daughter and refuse the other one for the first time in her life.
Mama's daughter are as different as night and day. Dee, the oldest, did not like her
home. She is pretty and intelligent. Dee wanted the things in life that Mama could not give
her. The church and her mother sent her to college. Today, in the story, she has come back for
a visit.
The youngest daughter Maggie was severely injured...
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