when does i stand here ironing take place
the early 1950s
title: I Stand Here Ironing text: and the 1940s (the time of the Second World War). The story is set in the working class home of the narrator, who comments that when her first child was born, they "were poor and could not afford for her the soil of easy growth." The story style reflect idea flow of narration, the phone call from the school and guilt led her for a full review to her life while she is ironing. A mother is contacted by an unnamed "you"—a guidance counselor at her daughter's school or a teacher—informing her that her daughter is in trouble. While she title: I Stand Here Ironing text: I Stand Here Ironing "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. Point of view: The story is told from a mother's first person point of view. The narrator, a remarried mother of five children, remembers the way she parented her first child, Emily. Her thoughts, and the story, are about what she would have done differently while parenting Emily if she had been more experienced and had better options. It is one of Olsen's most anthologized works. The story is about guilt, title: I Stand Here Ironing text: guilt that will be developed during the narration of the whole story. The mother is standing here ironing and within the next 30 minutes she will recall the whole trip of her and her daughter's life. Trying to find an answer for: what she can do now when it is too late? Her feeling that her daughter can claim her responsible for her suffering was the main idea in this short story. The story moves through a fairly long timeframe; although it is set in the early 1950s, it looks back to the 1930s (the time of the Great Depression), title: I Stand Here Ironing text: torturing herself by the past. I Stand Here Ironing "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. Point of view: The story is told from a mother's first person point of view. The narrator, a remarried mother of five children, remembers the way she parented her first child, Emily. Her thoughts, and the story, are about what she would have done differently while parenting Emily if she had been more experienced and had better options. It is one of Olsen's most anthologized works. title: I Stand Here Ironing text: irons, the mother works through her response to the summons, and has flashbacks to her daughter's childhood. Some of the things that the mother remembers in Emily's past include: ·Emily was overshadowed by her sister Susan. The story ends with the things that the mother wants to tell to the school councilor about helping Emily. To set Emily free from the past and help her to dig her way onward, to forget about who is responsible and what should have been done. The story is about the well of life legacy to Emily, to help her move forward and stop