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Night and Day Alice Walker, in her story, Everyday Use introduces two sisters, Dee and Maggie. Usually siblings are thought of to be similar in many aspects. These sisters, however, do not fit that traditional mold at all. They possess enough differences that the relation between the two is very surprising. They seem to differ in many more ways than they are similar. Three ways in which they differ are their physical appearance, their ideas of their heritage, and their treatment of their mother. Physically, Maggie and Dee are different enough that they could be mistaken for unrelated women. Maggie is permanently scarred by the fire that burned her house down when she was a child. She is “ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs” and seems very self-conscious about her looks (840).