I Stand Here Ironing
“I Stand Here Ironing” refers to events that took place in the 1930s in America during the Great Depression, a time of social, political and economical instability. The author is using first person point of view and first person narrator who plays the role of a minor character, a mother that tells a story about her daughter. The story begins with a dialogue over the telephone between the narrator and her daughter’s psychologist or maybe future husband, or a teacher, a person that is “deeply” interested in understanding Emily in order to “help” her. The person calls Emily’s mother hopping that she has “a key” or she can be used as a key to understand and solve Emily’s problems. Although, the narrator is engaged in a telephone conversation the story becomes a monologue because she never gets interrupted through the story.The title “I Stand Here Ironing” is also a leitmotiv and emphasizes a major idea of the story: the reason for Emily’s actual problems or at least her mother’s explanation for not according her child enough attention because she is always busy “ironing”; it also suggests Emily’s vulnerability and the narrator attitud
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Approximate Word count = 768
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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