What the Use was about is a older big women and her daughters. One of her daughters was having a dream about be famous and being on the T.V. In the being of the story she was talking about stitching together a blanket. Dee had never got a education and after second grade the school shut down. They also made a friend called Hakim-A-Barber and he sat down and had dinner with him in there house. Her mom made a lot of quilts and at the end of the story