Symbolism is a symbol of everything relating to the object or subject. Every small object can be used as a symbol of anything. As in mathematics, for example, shapes and numbers symbolize everything that it can be. Additionally, the American flag has fifty stars, representing 50 states. Colors can also be used as symbols. Especially in the person, you can see their true color on how they are or act. Like angry red, sad blue, happy green, dark black, love purple, everything represents something. It's probably your mood tone. Additionally, exterior signs feature symbols. Like the signs you see on the road, expressways, ditches, restaurants, stores, etc. Most likely everywhere, you just need to pay more attention to what is outside and what is around you. In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker it is about a mother named Mama Johnson who has two daughters who are not very similar. Her older daughter Dee is very outgoing, beautiful, but she doesn't understand her heritage, and her younger daughter Maggie, who is very shy and not outgoing, but really understands her heritage. They don't really talk to each other, not since their incident about what happened to their last house that burned down. Dee finally, after who knows how many years, comes back and visits her mother and Maggie just to ask her for some of her old tricks that they used to show her old culture where she came from. Next, she wants to take some quilts that her grandmother made and that her mother promised Maggie when she got married. The argument begins between Mother and Dee, and Mother realizes that Dee cannot get everything she wants, and decides to make a change and reject her request. A variety of characters and objects that depict the symbolism in "Everyday Use." .. middle of paper ...... in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" have several ideas of symbolism to describe each of them in what they symbolize. Works Cited Bmad, Nick. “Symbolism in the Daily Use of Walkers.” » Enotes. Np, July 4, 2007.Web. March 7, 2014. Eshbough. “A Literary Analysis of Alice Walker’s Short Story ‘Everyday Use’.” YAHOO! VOICE. Yahoo, Inc., August 21, 2008. Web. March 17, 2014.Moore, Julie. “Heritage and Symbolism in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’.” YAHOO! VOICE. Np, May 29, 2007. Web. March 17, 2014. Spark Notes Publishers. “Themes, mitotics and symbols”. Notes of sparkle. Spark Notes LLC, nd, Web. March 17, 2014. Velazquez, Juan R. “Characterization and Symbolism in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use.” » Lone star. Np, and Web. March 17, 2014. White, David. "'Everyday Use': Defining African-American Heritage." » Luminarium. Anniina Jokinen, September 19, 2002. Web. March 17 2014.