She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and chin. What is symbolized in the excerpt? Angry that Mom didn't value her heritage, Dee wished she would disappear. Dee was blinded by pride, and couldn't recognize the true value of her heritage. Mom and Maggie were invisible to Dee because she was so busy. Dee wanted to shut out the vision of her Mother.

Dee was blinded by pride, and couldn't recognize the true value of her heritage.

Explanation:

In Alice Walker's short story Everyday Use, the characters of Mama, Maggie, and Dee represent the different generations' perspectives of what their heritage means to them. While Mama and Maggie play the perfect mother-daughter relationship, Dee represents the rebelling and 'outcast' daughter who seems to have no real understanding of her heritage and family importance.

When Dee came with her boyfriend to get some of the household things she wanted for her apartment. she almost managed to get whatever she liked except the quilts that Mama refused to let her have them. In fact, she strongly objected and promptly gave them to Maggie, and told Dee to chose anything else. Her objective of hanging the quilts like a family treasure clashed with Maggie's, where she will only "put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags." This made her so angry that she put on her sunglasses, hiding everything "above the tip of her nose and chin". This shows how she was blinded by her own pride and could not recognize the true value of her heritage, as her sister and mother did.