The Mother Daughter Relationship in I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olse

The Mother Daughter Relationship in I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie OlsenI stand here(predicate) ironing, a unique excogitate uttered by a muliebrity in her conquest of living. It may seem like an unwanted phrase to many another(prenominal), but it has deep meaning behind it. This phrase is almost talk by the cashier of ?I Stand Here Ironing,? Tillie Olsen, and also by many other mothers red through an important stage in their lives. The stage in life that the mother in the story is going through is called child development, and within this complicated stage arise many new existences of imagination, emotional journeys, and soothing memories. The whole story is based round a mothers view, and joy, of her child growing up in a world filled with barriers and hurdles that she must overcome. The entire point of view is that of the narrator, as a mother concerned with the way her child is universe brocaded and the hardships she must overcome. She also witnesses her daughter?s hap piness and the colorful meanings of life that she discovers herself. I believe this story is based around the hardships of growing up as a woman in the Nineteen-hundreds. It has all the symbolism of being a true feminist short story. As Elaine Orr expresses in her criticism, Tillie Olsen and a womens liberationist Spiritual Vision, about how ?Suddenly Emily is emblematic of all children, of the attached generation??(EO 84) that the propagation were of the early feministic era. When feminists were about conquering oppression and wage increase above the rest of the doubt that society places upon them. She talks about how ?Emily will not survive. If she does not believe in future presence, in beginnings latent in her own life, all is lost past, present, and future.?(EO 84) expressing once again how the times were differen... ...cts of the mother and the descriptions, which are presented to us from her, are very conclusive and strike to be further examined to draw out any further c onclusions on how she ?really? felt. The mother-daughter relationship between the narrator and her daughter bring up many questions as to their exact connection. At times it seems strong, as when the narrator is relating her childhood and recounting the good times. Other times it is very strained. entirely in all the connection between the two seems to be a very real and lifelike account of an actual mother-daughter relationship.Bibliography1. Orr, Elaine. Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision. Jackson University Press, 1987 2. Responding to Literature. ?I Stand Here Ironing?. Mayfield publication Company Judith Stanford. 1999. Pg. 815-821.