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2002babygurl
2002babygurl
29.06.2020 • 
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Which excerpt best represents the central conflict of "Everyday Use"? "You ought to try to make something of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."

"Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me."

"But they're priceless!" she was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!"

"I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school."

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