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Short Story Analysis of Tillie Olsen's 'I Stand Here Ironing'

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story of a young and inexperienced mother who painfully relates the deplorable circumstances of her life and the impacts of those circumstances on her and her young daughter. This  paper contends that, rather than a lament of guilt, this story is a story of anguish and a symbolic literary message which emphasizes the importance of feminine survival in the  face of intense societal pressures. No additional sources are listed. PPltIron.rtf "I Stand Here Ironing": An Analysis of the Short Story  by Tillie Olsen by - 10 Nov 2001 paper properly!  Tillie Olsen first published "I Stand Here Ironing" in 1961 in "Tell Me  a Riddle", her first book. Although "I Stand Here Ironing" is not biographical it parallels to some degree events which occurred in Olsens own life. It is the  story of a young and inexperienced mother who painfully relates the deplorable circumstances of her life. The poverty of the depression era has wielded its impact on the mother  and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the most part feeling unloved and unhappy. As a consequence the child is left introverted  and withdrawn. Emily has not always been withdrawn, however. Her internal quest for physical and emotional nourishment, nourishment which was  lacking in her childhood, is symbolized first by the initial lack of food and a ravenous appetite during her adolescent years. Her life had not begun in such a