The short story “Every Day Use” by Alice Walker narrates the story of a small broken family whose problems go way far back than we are told. The text is narrated in first person by the mother of this family, we are thoroughly described through the text the way this woman looks and thinks. She is a husky woman, not quite feminine:
I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day [] I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes
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