In “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker brings forth the theme of poverty by emphasizing more on the surroundings in which the characters in the story live. The author particularly portrays this through Dee, who repeatedly rejects her impoverished family state and roots due to her modern views and attitudes towards life. Walker demonstrates the theme of poverty via the nature of the family’s economic condition, focusing on aspects such as the family environment and their socioeconomic class facilitating the audience’s comprehension of the poverty theme as displayed throughout the novel.
