everyday use

in my american women writers class we read alice walker's everyday use. it was reminiscent of the relationships in a raisin in the sun by lorraine hansberry, with a black mother and her two children; one of the daughters is more assimilated into white culture and the other refutes the black american identity in favor of an ancestral african one. anyway, i had some thoughts. why does dee/wangero wants the quilts if she is rejecting her familial name? wouldn't this signal some sort of deep-seated emotional reality where she does not actually give up her identity as dee? the quilts are made by women almost exclusively named dee or dicie, which dee is short for. maggie, on the other hand, was promised these quilts, in remembrance of her grandmother, for her wedding day. she doesn't seem to care as much about material things as her sister. i don't have any personal connection to this story, strangely, despite the number of losses i have experienced in my lifetime and the mementos left behind by these family members.