Why does Mama give Maggie the quilts?
Why does Mama give Maggie the quilts? Mama, the narrator, ultimately gives the family quilts to Maggie instead of Dee (Wangero) because she recognizes that Dee gets everything she wants, that she's even already claimed the quilts as her own, because they were promised to Maggie, and because Maggie is the daughter who wants them for the right reasons. Why did Dee read to Mama and Maggie at home? However, her reading to them was also a way of showing off her knowledge and superior intellect, and Mama notes Dee would "shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits,...