Short Story: I Stand Here Ironing

This book has made an impact on all people who have read it. Good or bad this book has changed people’s life’s. Erin Vincent should be more known and should be more famous. She was an important person because she simply never gave up. In most other life’s when people even just loose one parent they give up. Erin lost both and is more successful than most people. Even if she isn’t world known she still made a difference in the world. People who read this book and have been through the same thing she has could see why they could still have a great life. She longed to have a better life than what she was meant to have. That is true success. That is an admirable person. Erin wrote her autobiography with all of her struggles. No matter is something was wrong she did, she still mentioned every mistake in her book. Along with mistakes she mentioned her accomplishments equally. She wasn’t a perfect person, unlike anyone else she still mentioned by she could have failed at life. This book was touching and honestly with all the readers. Losing a parent or two isn’t just to be told to be sad. Losing a parent is brutal and hard to talk about. If Erin was to write another book about her life I would read it because her first one had an impact on me not any other book has given me. She isn’t that famous, but has a touching story to tell. Her story is still one of the best ones I have ever heard. She was

"You think because I am her mother I have a key, or that in some way you could use me as a key? She has lived for nineteen years. Over and over, we are told of the limitations on choice--"it was the only way"; "They persuaded me" and verbs of necessity recur for descriptions of both the mother's and Emily's behavior. " In such statements as "my wisdom ! came too late," the story verges on becoming an analysis of parental guilt. With the narrator, we construct an image of the mother's own development: her difficulties as a young mother alone with her daughter and barely surviving during the early years of the depression; her painful months of enforced separation from her daughter; her gradual and partial relaxation in response to a new husband and a new family as more children follow; her increasingly complex anxieties about her first child; and finally her sense of family balance which surrounds but does not quite include the early memories of herself and Emily in the grips of survival needs. In doing so she has neither trivialized nor romanticized the experience of motherhood; she has indicated the wealth of experience yet to be explored in the story’s possibilities of experiences, like motherhood, which have rarely been granted serious literary consideration. Rather she is searching for

     Emotional support also plays an important role of Emily’s well being. The idea mother suppose to care, support, and value their children needs. Emily needed this nourishment. She needed her mother to smile at her in order for her to feel a connection with the person that she supposed to be able to depend on. Emily’s mother did not know how to communicate with Emily. The mother-daughter relationship has an element of coldness, it lacks warmth. “There were years she did not want me to touch her” (Olsen 262). Emily’s mother inability to interact with her, leaves Emily unloved and in return, she shall not express any love toward her mother. Emily’s mother feels her “wisdom came too late” (Olsen 262). With this thought in mind, Emily’s mother shall never show communication or love to Emily, therefore the relationship shall continue to be doomed.

In the short story "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen the conflict between a mother whose giving is limited by hardships is directly related to her daughter's wrinkled adjustment. Ironing, she reflects upon when she was raising her first-born daughter, Emily. The mother contemplates the consequences of her

Throughout out Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Ruth, the narrator, thinks a lot about her mother who abandoned her and her sister and her aunt who is now trying to be a mother figure for the both of them. Throughout the story Ruth begins to understand that if her mother were still around she would most likely be taking her for granted like many daughters do to their mothers, but she’s not and thinks about what their relationship could have been everyday. Even though her sister Lucille does not look at their aunt Sylvie like a mother, Ruth has an important connection with her. Some days Ruth wants to believe that Sylvie is her mother Helen, but she realizes she never will be, no matter how much she wishes. During the book, the two chapters

The short story, "A Dead Woman 's Secret," is about a mother who just passed away. Her children, who became successful adults because of mother 's love and nurture, kneeled down beside her bed. The thought of letting her go was terrifying, so they decided to read her old letters. The first few stocks of letters brought a lot of positive emotions and brightened up their mood. As they dug further down through the letters, they learned the truth that absolutely destroyed the image of a perfect mother that they had on their mind ever since the childhood. They found love letters from a man they never heard of. Mother 's secret was extremely disappointing to handle, so they left her alone in a darkened room. The story demonstrates how people 's perspective of others ' can change in a single moment because of an insignificant secret that floated after drowning in tears for decades.

The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks "The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a sorrowful, distressing poem about a mother who has experienced numerous abortions. While reading the poem, you can feel the pain, heartache, distress and grief she is feeling. She is both remorseful and regretful; nevertheless, she explains that she had no other alternative. It is a sentimental and heart wrenching poem where she talks about not being able to experience or do things with the children that she aborted -- things that people who have children often take for granted. Perhaps this poem is a reflection of what many women in society are feeling.

The very beinning of the story is extraordinary. It begins with the burial of Emily, the residents around her coffin did not feel anything, most of them were curious. There were neither friends nor relatives, nobody who was in mouring for her, only inquirers. The readers can ask, what kind of person was Miss Emily? Why the others did not feel sadness? Perhaps there is a bigger question: what was the reason that nobody went to her house more than ten years (except her slave, Tobe).

This reality sends panic and fear through her because now she has nowhere to turn and no one to tell her what to do, no one to command her life. Not only is she stricken with the loss of her father but now she is cut off to the outside world, because her only link has passed on. Emily immediately goes into a state of denial; to her, her father could not be dead, he was all that she had and she would not let him go.

Mother Daughter Relationship in I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen If Only.... Almost every parent dreams of giving

Emily’s upbringing is plagued with difficulties. She is the first-born of a young mother and the eldest of five brothers and sisters. As a baby, she is

The narrator seems unable to establish direct contact with Emily, either in the recovery center or their home life. The narrator notes how Emily grew slowly more distant and emotionally unresponsive. Emily returned home frail, distant, and rigid, with little appetite. Each time Emily returned, she was forced to reintegrate into the changing fabric of the household. Clearly, Emily and the narrator have been absent from each other’s lives during significant portions of Emily’s development. After so much absence, the narrator intensifies her attempts to show Emily affection, but these attempts are rebuffed, coming too late to prevent Emily’s withdrawal from her family and the world. Although Emily is now at home with the narrator, the sense of absence continues even in the present moment of the story. Emily, the narrator’s central

The mother-daughter relationship is often scrutinized, publicized, and capitalized on. Whether from tell-all biographies, to humorous sit-coms, or private therapy sessions, this particular relationship dynamic gives some of the most emotion-activating memories. When female authors reflect and write about their relationships with their mothers, they have a tendency to taint their reflections with the opinions they have as an adult, reviewing the actions of their mother when they were young. These opinions set the tone of the story independently and in conjunction with the relationship itself and manifest in creative literary styles that weave an even more intricate story. Case in point, when reviewing the two literary works “I Stand Here

The story makes me think that how bad did emily feel when her mother could not give time towards her life.It also made me think that how many children are there in the world who go through this kind if stuff. The iron represents the chores and responsibilities that stopped Emily’s

Emily a 41 year old Caucasian female seem to be in a mid-life crisis in which she reports increasing depression. This may be as a result of a lot of things that has happened or has not happened in Emily’s life. Emily has been struggling with unemployment since May 2010