Love Conquers All?

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This paper compares the main theme in Walker's and Mukherjee's works. It explains that these two works are an expression of America's diverse culture and identity and of old versus modern. The paper offers quotes to qualify points made.

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"The culmination of the work, through its characterization and rural poor setting is that the two sides never meet in the middle, both rejecting the other and all the while it is unclear what the lover thinks. Asalamalakim's point of view is mostly absent from the work, as an expression of the mother's inability to understand him in the midst of this family conflict he is lost. Asalamalakim is a dark ignorable shadow in the background that could be seen as a symbol of the dichotomy between where Dee came from and where she is now."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Walker, Alice, "Everyday Use" in In Love and Trouble, 47-59, New York, NY: Harvest Press. 1973.
• Mukherjee, Bharati, "Orbiting" in The Middleman and Other Stories, 55-76, New York,NY: Grove Press. 1988.

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