Maggie is a shy, introverted girl. She has scars on her
arms and legs from the fire that burned her house about twelve years ago. Maggie is a
slow reader. Mama says she has always been slow. Maggie lives with Mama and works hard
along side her mother. She is not ambitious like Dee. Maggie is withdrawn from society.
Mama describes Maggie as not too bright:
Maggie has a little education, but according to
her mother, 'she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her
by.'
On the other hand, Dee
is vibrant, gregarious--outgoing. She is well educated. She has been attending the
university and she is proud of her education. Dee has been studying her African
heritage. She has changed her name to an African name. She is dressed in African clothes
with bright colors. She wears large dangling earrings. She is a picture of her African
heritage.
She has come to visit to gather some heirlooms in
order to decorate her house. Although she desires the quilts that are heirlooms, Mama
says they belong to Maggie. Dee pouts. Mama says Maggie will really appreciate the love
that was sewn into the quilts form generation to
generation.
Dee is always the winning type. Maggie lives a
life of defeat. When Mama insists that Maggie will get the quilts, Maggie smiles a real
smile, and for the first time she is not afraid in her sister Dee's
presence.
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