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#4 I think that the mothers refusal to let Dee have the quilt was a temporary change in her character. Mama knows that Dee is just about everything that she didn’t want her daughter to become. When Dee asks her whether she can have a quilt that is very important to the family Mama immediately tells her that she can’t because t is going to Maggie when she gets married. The details in the story are when she talks about Maggie in such a thankful and caring way and then when he talks about Dee it’s as if her spirit drops and she knows that talking about her will just take her smile away. You can understand through the short story that the Mama and Dee are opposites and that Dee is now an upper-class rich brat that rebelled completely against her mother’s wishes. Also, a big problem was that the reason why their first house was burned to the ground and that Dee’s poor younger sister was burned was because Dee wanted to rebel and set the house on fire. I don’t think her mother fully forgave her for that. Since Maggie is the “better” child in the family Dee knows that she isn’t loved as much. The mother is torn in two and she changes her personality when she is around either one.