"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen both personified a mother with great love and compassion for their children. Although each mother was separated by cultural and social differences the mothers in these stories shared a similar character. Character that can only be found in a mother, and can only be obtained through struggles, hardship and perseverance. Both mothers succeeded through life and providing the best for their children in every way possible, alone. Whether it is sending them to college when money was obviously short or extending a love to them that was boundless. These mothers held the height of their profession, known as "Momma".

"Everyday Use" depicts a large black woman with a heart as big as her profile and the work ethic of an ox. Dee's mother has taken the persecutions of li

Walker, Alice. "Everyday Use" Literature: An Introduction to reading and writing. Ed. Edgar B. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc. 1998

"Everyday Use" and "I Stand Here Ironing" have two women who could seemingly endure anything. They have overcome trauma, abandonment, and even fires, and still these things have not hardened their hearts. Emily's and Dee's mother, both, loved and provided for them right up to the last paragraph. With the gentle heart, strong work ethic and iron discipline these women possessed, they could stand be held up to any Caesar and not fall short. If the title of this essay holds true, these women hold a character and hope beyond measure.

fe in stride, from the family house burning down to her husband leaving her. In that respect she shared a lot in common with Emily's, mother. Emily's mother also made no mention of support from a male figure in the story and was st

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