In the story Dee is portrayed as a pretty girl that is really selfish. She is ashamed of her family for being poor. She can’t accept being poor and wants to have a nice life, which is acceptable, but she knows nothing about her ancestors and thinks that all the special things in their house are just
relics and cool things from her ancestors.
Dee is portrayed as this really selfish girl that is really ashamed of being poor. She doesn’t really even understand her ancestors. She thinks all of their items that are in the house are just relics. She is super selfish and wants everything to be nice for her. She isn’t really nice to her sister because she wants everything to herself. She doesn’t exactly care for her sister.
Let’s look through Dee’s eyes though. She lives in a poor family and she really hates her house because it is so shabby. She is so smart and pretty so her mom decides to send her to a really good school. She is so smart and talented so obviously she wants to have a nice house and be rich. I think that if you look at it from her view maybe you might think she shouldn’t have been portrayed as a mean and selfish person.
You can look at the story from both ways but I think that it makes sense that she is shown as a selfish person. Even if you look at the story from her POV you can still see that she wants everything to be nice for her. She is unable to accept the fact that she is poor like her sister and her mom do. She just wants to have everything nice for herself.