How did Dee relate to her family before she left home in "Everyday Use"?

Before Dee left home,
she did not relate to her
family well at all. The fact that her mother dreams of a
television-style
reunion with Dee where the daughter might lean in "to tell how she would
not
have made it without [her mother's] help" is quite telling about their
evident
estrangement. There would be no need for such a reunion if Mrs.
Johnson had ever felt
appreciated or valued by Dee before.

She says that, when Dee was younger, she
had a habit of reading to
her family "without pity," making them feel ignorant and
stupid. Mrs.
Johnson, the narrator, says, "She washed us in a river of make believe,
burned
us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know." She
even believes that Dee
hated her sister, Maggie, a timid girl who had been
burned in the house fire years
ago.

She knows, for sure,
that Dee hated that first house, and so Mrs.
Johnson assumes that she will
hate this house too. She is certain Dee "will want to tear it
down." Dee had
once written to her mother, saying that she would never bring any friends to

visit them, presumably because she was so embarrassed by the family's
home.

From these bits of textual evidence, we can
determine that Dee's relationship with her
mother and sister has never been
good: as a child, she would seem to purposely humiliate them
with her own
knowledge and their lack of it, and, as a young adult, she was so embarrassed
by
them that she would never allow friends to see her
home.