Family Relationships: Sonny Blues by James Baldwin and I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen

In James Baldwin's two articles "Sonny Blues" and Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing", the authors focus on relationships between families. These stories are told by the brothers and mothers of "Sonny Blues" "I am ironing here," and the story is conveyed only by the family's view. Olson told the reader that the mother 's daughter Emily was raised and that the mother could not control internal conflict with her mother. However, Baldwin indicated that there is no family relationship between Sony and his brothers.

The three literary works that support Willa Cather's family relationship philosophy are as follows. Through these eyes of nature, you can see how the development of identity causes conflicts among families. Ironically, they keep leaving each other even if they need each other. We should explore how characters can overcome 'tragic inevitability' (Cather 107-120). The main confrontation of "I am ironing here" does not seem to appear on the surface, but the authors suggest that conflict has occurred in the minds of the opponents. When the narrator had her daughter Emily, she was "19 years old, this was pre-eased, the world of depression before WPA" (341). As a 19-year-old single mother living in a new era, she had to face her new identity

In James Baldwin's two articles "Sonny Blues" and Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing", the authors focus on relationships between families. These stories are told by the brothers and mothers of "Sonny Blues" "I am ironing here," and the story is conveyed only by the family's view. Olson told the reader that the mother 's daughter Emily was raised and that the mother could not control internal conflict with her mother. However, Baldwin indicated that there is no family relationship between Sony and his brothers.

James Baldwin 's Sony Blues is a fascinating story about the relationship between Harlem' s two disturbed brothers. It is not mentioned. Baldwin chose Sonny 's brother as a talker and made "Sony' s Blues" important in explaining the relationship and emotional complexity between Sonny and his brothers. The significance of "Sonny's Blues" is to explain the relationship between siblings based on observing, hearing, feeling, and seeking to understand Sonny through the process of the story by Sonny's brothers.