This outstanding author that goes by the name of Tillie Olsen which she had written the story "I Stand Here Ironing" at the time to show what she went through. The author of this piece of fiction is having the audience do some thinking, especially on what grand historical time it took place in. This short story had taken time during The Great Depression and World War II. The narrator of the story has mentioned to the audience how true the hardships that many women had endured during this historical time. The audience is having different types of ideas on what could be the conflict, but as the reader of this piece of fiction, it shows so many different themes that have to deal with The Great Depression era. Therefore, during this historical
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As the Compact Literature book has mentioned "At the height of the Depression in 1933, almost twenty-five percent of the total workforce - more than eleven million people - were unemployed" (Kirszner & Mandell). From the beginning of Emily's life, she was separated from those she needed most and her mother's guilt ends up tearing her apart. Emily was only eight months old when her father had decided to leave her and her mother since he could no longer endure the pressure. In fact, the mother's life was interrupted by childbirth, numerous jobs, poverty, childcare, remarriage, frequent locations and five children. For example, when Olsen mentions, "You should smile at Emily more when you look at her. What was in my face when I looked at her? I loved her. There were all the acts of love" (Olsen). Therefore, Emily's mother had struggled through an economic situation which gave way too little or no opportunity to properly care for and nurture her first born child. Despite the attention and love that Emily craved and never received, she still survived, and even made strengths, out of the deprivations she had endured. The detachment between mother and daughter in “I Stand Here Ironing” is understandable by the obstacles that the mother had to face to provide a better life for her
As the Compact Literature book has mentioned "At the height of the Depression in 1933, almost twenty-five percent of the total workforce - more than eleven million people - were unemployed" (Kirszner & Mandell). From the beginning of Emily's life, she was separated from those she needed most and her mother's guilt ends up tearing her apart. Emily was only eight months old when her father had decided to leave her and her mother since he could no longer endure the pressure. In fact, the mother's life was interrupted by childbirth, numerous jobs, poverty, childcare, remarriage, frequent locations and five children. For example, when Olsen mentions, "You should smile at Emily more when you look at her. What was in my face when I looked at her? I loved her. There were all the acts of love" (Olsen). Therefore, Emily's mother had struggled through an economic situation which gave way too little or no opportunity to properly care for and nurture her first born child. Despite the attention and love that Emily craved and never received, she still survived, and even made strengths, out of the deprivations she had endured. The detachment between mother and daughter in “I Stand Here Ironing” is understandable by the obstacles that the mother had to face to provide a better life for her