Why won't Dee bring her friends to visit the family's new house?

Dee's mother knows how
much Dee hated their first house. It's curious, isn't it, that Mama and Maggie got caught in the
flames when the old house burned downMaggie actually did sustain burns which have left scarsbut
Dee was already outside watching the house burn? One might wonder if Dee actually burned that
house down. Mama seems to associate Dee with fire (whether intentionally or not): she says that,
as a child, Dee "burned [them] with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to
know," and she even compares Dee's orange and yellow dress to "the light of the
sun." Maggie, on the other hand, wears a "pink shirt and red blouse": the colors
of skin that has been burned. It's as though...