Explain the inner and outer conflicts in "Everyday Use."

In "Everyday Use" the inner and outer conflicts are
interrelated.  They both involve the female culture of the Johnson family, as symbolized
by the heirlooms of the quilts and the butter churn.

The
external conflict is mainly between Mrs. Johnson and Dee over who should receive the
heirlooms.  Also of importance is Dee's dress and language, both of which reveal her
trendy new Pan-African culture--a refusal of her native domestic, feminine, agrarian
American culture.  Her new afro, African garb, and Islamic greetings are signs that she
has turned her back of her mother's family traditions.

All
three Johnson women face internal conflicts.  Mrs. Johnson battles her desire to be
honored publicly as a matriarch of the family (on the Johnny Carson show).  She also
must protect the family traditions by rewarding Maggie, the younger daughter, and not
Dee, the older.  Obviously, it is tough for a mother to forsake a
birthright.

Maggie feels shame for not being as pretty and
educated as her older sister.  Her inferiority complex comes from having been literally
burned by her old house.  As such, she will forever be a domestic in one.  But, at the
end, she feels great joy at having been given the quilts, and she is honored as the
future matriarch of the family.

Dee does not exhibit much
internal conflict.  If she had, she might have seen how arrogant and selfish she is in
her demands for the heirlooms.  She wants to display them as relics of her African
bloodline, not her immediate domestic culture.  As such, she becomes an impostor to her
mother, one who doesn't deserve the status of matriarch.