Reading With A Purpose

When Dee comes back to visit Mama she asks for a quilt that Mama plans on giving to Maggie and only Maggie. The reason being that Mama didn't think that Dee remembers her heritage, and doesn't completely deserve the quilt which serves a purpose  Dee doesn't need it for. Dee doesn't want the quilt because she wants to sleep in it at night, she doesn't need it to keep her warm, she lives a better life. Dee only wants it to represent her work, her hard work. She wants it not to remind herself what she had to go through to be in the position she is in now, but she wants it so that others can see what she has been through. Therefore Dee accused Mama of not understanding her heritage, but Mama on the other hand doesn't want the quilt to be a decoration. She want Maggie to have it because Maggie needs it. Mama looks at Dee as if she was a different person, a person without the same heritage. She thinks that Dee has lost all her heritage from being educated in urban areas, and she is not wrong Dee has lost her heritage.