Everyday Use
What is Heritage?
Dee (Wangero) would define heritage as a way of remembering the past by preserving the family antiques. With the quilts Wangero would “Hang them,” she said. As if that was the only thing you could do with quilts.
Maggie and the mother believed that the quilts were being saved for a certain person (Maggie) and that Maggie should be the one to decide what she would do with them, even if it meant using them in her own home and ruining after many years of use and turning them to rags.
Dee views heritage as a legacy that should be preserved while Maggie and her mother view heritage as more of a birthright or inheritance.
