Short Story I Stand Here Ironing

What does it mean to be a single middle class mother in America in the 1950 And how that effect the bond between the family members? Olsen answered this question in her magnificent story I stand here ironing .is a short story by Tillie Olsen. It was published in her short story collection Tell Me a Riddle in 1961. This simple yet complicated story tells us the struggle of a single mother in the 1950 and what she had to go throws to support her baby. the story starts with the narrator ironing and thinking about a way to help her 18 years old daughter. The narrator goes back in time 19 years when she gave a birth to her beautiful baby. unfortunately, the narrator family didn’t last, when the baby was 8months old, the father left Emily and her …show more content…
That was my life for 3 years, until I learned English. Now I’m working 10 hours a day and 8 hours in school. Although some people think it’s a lot, but at least now I can go home take a shower and sleep for five hours, which is pretty good deal for me. The only issue is that my family in Iraq think that I’m making millions of dollars because I’m in America the land of opportunity, they think that the second I got in north America, the migration services started serving me money on a gold plate. The reality is different, work hard to survive if you are not rich when it comes to choosing between hanging out with your kid and dying out of hangar or working and feeding your kid to survive, I would pick my second options, and that’s what Olson chose too. Life sometimes isn’t fair for middle class people, it gives you too hard options and you have to pick one. It makes us see only two colors, either black or white, but we don’t get to enjoy the different shades of gray. the story I stand here ironing theme is different from what we 're used to around that period. The fifties. The narrator is a single mother who spent all here time working to make ends meet during the great depression, which is quite interesting because we are used to the fact that middle class mothers around that period stayed home and took care of their kids. Although the written words in the story made us think that the mother and the daughter didn’t have any bond, it appears as if they were strangers. But we still since love and strong bond in the story. Olsen don’t like to show concern about the luxury written words, she rather used silence language and still send the message she wants us to get. “When she saw me she would break into a clogged weeping that could not be