What foreshadows the mother's decision to keep the quilts from Dee, and is her choice just a temporary change of character?

The mother is hostile toward her daughter Dee and protective of Maggie from the beginning of the story. She holds Dee responsible for the scars of Maggie, both literal and figurative. She resents her daughter's beauty and vigor, saying right before Dee arrives that when Dee was courting "Jimmy T she didn't have much time to pay to us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him." In this statement we see the mother's feeling of rejection and hurt resulting from the way Dee has treated her over the years. So, the mother's refusal to give Dee the quilts is very consistent with her character in that the act constitutes a "payback" for all the hurt Dee has caused. When she feels that Dee looks at her with "hatred" when she says she plans to give the quilts to Maggie, we can imagine the mother drawing a line in the sand, ready to do battle and not give way. Putting all of this in the context of the mother's early statement in anticipating and dreading the arrival of Dee, we see the inevitability of her refusing the quilts. In the second paragraph, the mother says that Maggie thinks that "'no' is a word the world never learned to say to" Dee, and that word, "no," is precisely what she says to her at the end of the story. This word foreshadows the conclusion of the story.