Mama gives her what she wants in life, which is a college education. Mom plans to give Maggie the quilts she made, along with other possessions from the family home. They do not see the point in presenting their possessions to those around them, but prefer to use them wisely in their daily lives. They use the quilts as they were intended to be used, as blankets to keep warm at night, and they use the dasher to churn the butter. As shocked as they are by Dee's appearance and mannerisms, Mom and Maggie are delighted to see their daughter/sister. She gives them new details about her life and tries to encourage them to become more like the modern world, to adopt new identities and to become less naive about what is happening in the everyday culture around them. However, they are happy with who they are and where they are in life. They care a lot about their ancestry, but as David Coward says in his article "Heritage and Deracination in Walker's 'Everyday Use,' "for Maggie and her mother, the notion of heritage is perpetually subordinated to the fact of tradition. alive.” , a tradition in which a generation stays in touch with its predecessors