Foil Characters in "Everyday Use"

While reading "Everyday Use" the first thing I noticed was the difference between the sisters Dee and Maggie. "Dee wanted nice things...She was determined to stare down any disaser in her efforts... At sixteen she had a style of her own: and knew what style was," (175). Maggie on the other hand walked with "chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since that fire burned the other house to the ground," (175). "Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand... homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe," (173). Dee was confident and very different from the rest of her family. Maggie was obviously more insecure and felt inferior to Dee. Had it not been for the fire and the shame it caused Maggie, it seems that they would not be as great of foils.