In the story “Everyday Use”, the theme of this story is based on passing down a family heritage through generations. Mom has two daughters, Dee and Maggie. Dee was given the opportunity to go away to college and live a new life. Maggie, meanwhile, is at home and lives with her mother. Mom's girls are very different from each other; she describes Maggie as "a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by a careless person rich enough to own a car." While Dee is seen as more outgoing, prettier and prettier. Mom and Maggie look a lot alike; they both share a love for their heritage. Mom has her mother's bedspread which will be passed down to one of her daughters. When Maggie comes home from college, she expresses that she wants the quilt, and not because she cares about her heritage, she just wants to use it as a blanket. Maggie, for her part, has already been promised the quilt since she will make better use of it. In this story, you see how a mother may have “favored” one child over another because she had more in common with one of them. Maybe Mom could have resolved the conflict before it started by giving Dee something else from her grandmothers to have in her home as a "daily ».