Shouldn't be talking

In the short story Everyday Use, the reader uses irony concerning Dee. At the end of the story, Dee addresses how her family, which includes her mother and sister, don't understand their own heritage. However, this is ironic because throughout the story, it is apparent that Dee does not understand her own heritage and even appears to be running away from it by marrying a man of a different culture and even changing her name completely to that of the different culure. She is the one who doesn't understand her own culture. But how does this contribute to the meaning of the text? Well, the title of the story is Everyday Use, and this relates to how the things that Dee wants to take from her mother's house to keep for herself and use as decoration are actually items that are used daily. So taking these items, especially the quilt, kind of relates how she is the one ignorant of her culture. So the use of irony and how it contributes to the text are successful ways of showing her arrogant and ignorant character.