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I Stand Here Ironing
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I Stand Here Ironing
The enquiry about Emily made by an unspecified person, possibly a teacher or a friend, prompts the mother to think about her daughter. The question about her daughter, with whom she is deeply...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The universal traits of the short story/monologue "I Stand Here Ironing" are essentially the themes that are presented, which could be issues that happen to many people. These issues include:...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The monologue in "I Stand Here Ironing" seems to have been prompted by a telephone call from Emily's college counselor, part of which is quoted in the second paragraph. "I wish you would manage...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Part of the challenge in assessing the conflict that the mother is facing. They are realities that strike at the heart of any parent. As a young mother, the fundamental conflict that the narrator...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Perhaps, one reason for the intensity and importance of the guilt that the mother feels in the story can be seen in its closing. It becomes clear that the mother understands that she has missed a...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Emily is the oldest daughter in the short story, I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen. Life has been hard on her mother who, only nineteen herself, was left with Emily to care for when Emily's...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The symbol that is most apparent when the narrator talks of her memories of the convalescent home is one of distance between the parents and their children that they sent to the convalescent home,...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen, the mother is trying to explain or understand the reasons why she and Emily have the unsatisfactory relationship they have and why Emily is the way she is....
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I Stand Here Ironing
The mother's iron is a metaphor for the recurring "wrinkles" of guilt that she experiences as she recalls the past: I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The relationship of the speaker of this monologue with her daughter is one that is characterised by past hurts and regret. In particular, it is clear that the speaker feels real guilt about the...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The relationship between Emily and her mother is never straight-forward in I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen and will not be resolved, despite the mother's best efforts. "Can I get you...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The conflict that is evidenced in this powerful monologue takes the form of both internal and external, as the mother battles with her own sense of internal guilt concerning the decisions that she...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The major topic under consideration in this excellent example of a monologue is the mother-daughter relationship and the perception of the mother as she reflects on her daughter and their...
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I Stand Here Ironing
pllllllllllllllllllllz help me i need it for my monoghraph,since it's about feminism and as a practical part i need to make a relation between the story and feminism.
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I Stand Here Ironing
The significant title of this short story by Lillie Olsen points to the metaphor of the mother passing the iron back and forth as she gauges the past against the present and forms a pattern of her...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Tillie Olsen writes about a mother who has made many mistakes in raising one of her children. The story “I Stand Here Ironing” brings to the reader an unnamed narrator who has been burdened by...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The central idea to the short story "I Stand Here Ironing" is the struggle of a single woman and single parent who tries to balance her working life with her role as a mother. This was a story...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Tillie Olsen's powerful story "I Stand Here Ironing" denotes a strong feminist influence. It is evidenced in the way that the narrator does not try to make excuses to explain her meager living...
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I Stand Here Ironing
As the narrator, the mother in the story “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen is ask by someone to discuss her daughter Emily and ways that she can be helped. The mother then reflects on the...
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I Stand Here Ironing
You might want to focus particularly on the way in which Olsen uses imagery to express the thoughts of the typical mother who is run ragged and absolutely exhausted. In particular, a stylistic...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In Tillie Olsen's story "I Stand Here Ironing", the character of Emily is a young nineteen year old woman who has a curious and interesting talent for comedy, performs funny acts but, ironically,...
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I Stand Here Ironing
"I Stand Here Ironing" is a short story written by Tillie Olsen. The narrator of the story explores the role her imperfect mothering may have had on her teenaged daughter, Emily. The narrator is...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In Tillie Olsen's short story "I Stand Here Ironing" we find two generations of women whose lives have been consistently interrupted by a myriad of social and financial obstacles. These obstacles...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The mother-daughter relationships in "I Stand Here Ironing" and "Two Kinds" are marked by chief similarities and differences. The most obvious similarity, of course, is that both stories are...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In this short story, "I Stand Here Ironing," a young mother does the best she can, but it is not enough. She struggles to work and take care of Emily. At times, Emily has to stay with other...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Tone, which is an integral part of a narrative, is produced by the writer's diction as well as stylistic choices concerning syntax, line or sentence length, imagery, and other figurative language....
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I Stand Here Ironing
The act of ironing is arduous work. When you iron you must stand to do it; you must be careful of how you do it so as not to miss a part or to iron in a worse wrinkle than already exists. When...
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I Stand Here Ironing
One theme that conveys itself, in part, through setting is the theme of deprivation. The historical time period here is the Great Depression and the years of WWII. The Depression is a time of...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The narrator’s daughter, Emily, is also quire realistic in the mind of the mother. The child’s solitude (paragraphs 9, 12), her fear of separation (paragraph 14), and her humor (paragraph 15)...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The mother is, along with Emily, a major character who like most parents is vulnerable to doubt about the way she has raised her child. In the story the mother cites many occasions of regret—the...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The story’s point of view is authentic and convincing. The narrator is a woman of thirty-eight doing the common domestic chore of ironing clothes (in the days before permanent-press clothing)....
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I Stand Here Ironing
The setting of “I Stand Here Ironing” is particularly significant and real. The year 1932, when the mother indicates that she herself was 19, was the time of the Great Depression. During this...
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I Stand Here Ironing
One key principle in this monologue is the powerlessness the narrator feels over daughter. There is a pervasive feeling of disappointment in this relationship despite the narrator's best efforts...
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I Stand Here Ironing
People often laugh to cover their pain; laughter and tears are closely connected. The fact that many clowns paint a tear on their cheeks over their makeup hints that the clown, who acts silly and...
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I Stand Here Ironing
With autobiographical overtones, Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" relates a mother's monologue in which she expresses her ambivalence about her child-rearing abilities regarding her daughter...
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I Stand Here Ironing
I believe the story, "I Stand Here Ironing," takes place in a large city. The clues are found in the following words/phrases: The narrator (Emily's mother) races home from the streetcar after...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In "I Stand Here Ironing," the narrator (Emily's mother) does not love her other children more, however, she is alone when Emily is a baby because Emily's father left them before Emily was a year...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" the mother's act of ironing is a metaphor for an examination of the past in an effort to reconcile her responsibilities to and relationship with her...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The context of this quote in the story is that Emily's mother, who is home ironing, receives a call from someone--perhaps a school administrator: principal, guidance counselor or social...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The opening line of Tillie Olsen's short story, "I Stand Here Ironing," is a metaphor for the ambivalence of the mother about her skills as a parent and about the future of her oldest daughter when...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Tillie Olsen's story begins with one line: I stand her ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron. The mother's act of ironing is a metaphor for the remembrances...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" is told as an interior monologue held by the mother who has been contacted by school officials about her daugther. The monologue of the narrator/mother...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The iron in Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Her Ironing" is symbolic of the mother's attempt to straighten out her feelings about her daughter Emily, and about herself. The movement of the iron parallels...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing," the mother's internal monologue indicates her guilt over her neglect of Emily while she was forced to work and care for her other children. In fact these...
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I Stand Here Ironing
The stream of consciousness technique takes a reader inside a character's mind, revealing perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of a character on a conscious or unconscious level. This technique...
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I Stand Here Ironing
I believe the Emily's relationship with her sister Susan is the only one discussed in the story because it is the one most significant to her. The narrator, Emily and Susan's mother, says that,...
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I Stand Here Ironing
By the time Emily returned from the convalescent home, she had been traumatized by years of instability and insufficient nurturing. Her mother had had her as a teenager, and although she had tried...
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I Stand Here Ironing
In accord with your assessment, in an interview with the Shenadoah Review, Grace Paley, author of "A Conversation with my Father," declares that the story ...is about generational attitudes about...
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I Stand Here Ironing
Rising action is defined as the events that develop from the conflict of a story--beginning with the action that incites the conflict--and lead to the climax. The climax is defined as that point in...