Everyday Use

What is the basic conflict in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”

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The basic conflict revolves around Mama's apprehension over her Elder daughter's visit. Dee is her older daughter and she is manipulative and controlling. We get a bit of Dee's history in the story. Dee has risen from the poverty in rural Georgia and is now college educated. She brings with her a condescending tone of entitlements to all the "quaint" things that Mama and Maggie, her little sister, use everyday. There is a conflict over old quilts that Mama finally refuses to give Dee. Dee wants to display them in her flat while Maggie will actually use them.