ir real roots, the family. Dee gets her Polaroid camera and immediately starts taking pictures of Maggie and the mother and the little tin-roofed house from many angles. She does not show them the pictures in a sense of sharing, but puts them in the car to take away with her. She is treating them like an anthropologist would treat a bunch of villagers that she felt superior to, that she was studying as if they were animals. She looks at everything in the house as if it were her own personal museum. She doesn't want to use any of the things for their real uses, for their "everyday uses." She treats everything as a piece from a museum or as a piece of art. She is out of touch with the reality of her own life. She is ashamed of her real life, and proud about an idea that is abstract, that is not real.
Dee wants two quilts which different members of the family had quilted long ago. Maggie thought she was going to get the quilts. The mother tells Dee that she has promised the older quilts to Maggie. Dee's response tells us just how selfish she
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