"I did somethine I never had done beofre: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on in to the room, snatched the quilts out of MIss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap." pg 181
The mother's refusal to Dee had never been done beofer. You think she would have been alot more mean to her elder daughter from the snobby way she acts but through the course of the story that does not happen. She is afraid of the intelligence and confidence her daughter, Dee posesses of the oustide world. But you already know the refusal will happen by the way she describes Dee before we, the readers, have even met her yet. The change in the mother is permanent because she hugged her youngest daughter and they sat with each other afterword. She describes Maggie as using a voice that "somebody used to never winning anyting, or having anything reserved for her." I knew she was going to refuse the quilts because Dee always seems to get what she wants and these certain objects were irreplaceable and therefore should be used the way the person who made them intended. Maggie also said the key words to the true meaning of the quilts. She said that she could remember "'Grandma Dee without the quilts.'"
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