I_Stand_Here_Ironing

I Stand Here Ironing Journal for I stand here Ironing In 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. The question of whom or what is to blame for Emily’s problematic childhood remains a mystery though, even after having read the story. Does the blame lie on the shoulders of the mother, or is it the circumstances of the world Emily was born into' When analyzing it psychologically, you could even (since the story is an autobiography in which she portrays herself as the mother) attribute the plight to the manner in which the mother was raised. You could even venture out and blame Emily for her own misfortune. The unfortunate circumstances that Emily was born into seem to contribute largely to Emily’s calamity. The mother “believes,” or tells herself and the person with whom she is speaking, that things such as her husbands abandonment, and her struggling economic situation gave way to little or no chance of proper care and nurturing. She even hints that the volatility of the socioeconomic and political situation of war emily, mother, story, emily’s, own, herself, even, time, out, blame, things, seems, reader, whom, stand, situation, should, school, passive, olsen’s, olsen, neighbor, life, lack, hardships, either, depression, circumstances, child, care, again, way, war, two, truth