1. I Stand Here Ironing
Eventually, Susan was born, Emily's younger sister. Unfortunately, around the same time, Emily became horribly sick with red measles which made her have to stay away from Susan for a while. "She did not get well. She stayed skeleton thin, not wanting to eat, and night after night she had nightmares." (Olsen 192) Emily started feeling neglected and less important than Susan although she never complained about it. As a result of Emily not getting better, Emily's mother and counselor decided it would be best for her to attend a convalescent home for children. Being the type of child Emily is, she doesn't refuse. While staying there, Emily learns how to deal with being ignored and lonely. "I used to try to hold and love her after she came back, but her body would stay stiff, and after a while she'd push away." Upon arriving home, Emily felt perfectly normal and she no longer needed her mom's love and affection. She started managing her sadness and depression in a way that doesn't make her feel empty inside. .
One of the main themes displayed in "I Stand Here Ironing" is poverty. The story proves how difficult it can be trying to find a job with little to no education. It also highlights the strains it can put on a family dealing with a lack of income. "After a while I found a job hashing at night so I could be with her days, and it was better. But it came to where I had to bring her to his family and leave her." (Olsen 191) .
Often times, families struggling with poverty would have to relocate many times trying to find a decent job that can help support them. Relocating causes the children to change schools, leave behind friends and makes them have to start all over again. Due to these extreme changes, the children might start to feel depressed, stressed and neglected from their friends, teachers, as well as their parents. Since Emily is the first child, she has experienced many of these conditions which causes her to feel isolated and unhappy.
Journal for I stand here IroningIn Tillie Olsen"s short autobiographical story I Stand Here Ironing, she gives the reader a glimpse into her life, the choices she made as a mother, and a single parent. ... It turns out that the place was like a prison for the innocent; and that is from that mothers point of view, I cannot imagine what Emily would have to say about it. ... She seems to be eternally obliged to "Stand and IronaE out the wrinkles and mistakes that she has made in the past, and will make again and again....
In Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing, Emily is the narrator's character of focus. The narrator is clearly her mother who has been left by Emily's father when Emily was less than one year old. Emily was born a beautiful baby during the Great Depression. The coming years will seem to take their tol...
Almost 30 years into this journey, she published the novella "Tell Me a Riddle- along with three other novella's including "I Stand Here Ironing-; the prior earning her the O. ... "I Stand Here Ironing-, the focus of this paper, is found in Prof. ... But I digress. ... I had to work her first six years when there was work, or I sent her home and to his relatives. ... I was a young mother, I was a distracted mother. ...
Finding the Answer Tillie Olsen's short story "I Stand Here Ironing" portrays a mother faced with an overwhelming internal conflict with her oldest daughter, Emily. ... Here, the mother is expressing her frustration while ironing. ... She only wishes to let Emily know that "she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron" (87-88). The image of the mother ironing the dress compares to actually raising Emily as a child. ... The ironing board itself is everybody's" expectations of Emily. ...
In both writings, Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the plots center around the problems of a child. In "I Stand Here Ironing", Emily is a young girl affected negatively by her mother's lack of care and the time of cold war. ... "I"m one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it. ... Like, Biff, in I Stand Here Ironing, Emily is a young, pessimist and a little lazy girl. ...
oley I Stand Here Ironing "I stand here ironing," a unique phrase uttered by a woman in her conquest of life. ... This phrase is almost whispered by the narrator of "I Stand Here Ironing," Tillie Olsen, and also by many other mothers going through an important stage in their lives. ... I believe this story is based around the hardships of growing up as a woman in the Nineteen-hundreds. ... I feel, however, that this story was based on the emotional pull a mother has to one of her children and how the feelings of emotion race wildly with every moment and situation in that child's life. ...
I stand here ironing "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen is a depiction of a mother-daughter relationship that lacks involvement and warmth. ... "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen is a depiction of a mother-daughter relationship that lacks involvement and warmth. ... "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen is a depiction of a mother-daughter relationship that lacks involvement and warmth. ...
The superego, ego, and id play a major roll in the interpretation of this story. ... This shows the male as being the superego here because the girl isn't ironing and hemming just her own close but also ironing her father's, a male, cloths as well which is an example of servitude. ... This is shown when the superego tells her "this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming" (854) so she will look like the male's idea of a proper female and not be seen as a slut. ... The ego a...