The Mother in I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen

As explained by Amy Tan's story "Two Types", "Only two", the most painful way to destroy precious relationships between mother and daughter is that each party is insensitive and ruthless When it is said that obedient and submissive people have only one daughter who can live in this house. Obedient daughter! "My daughter is beautiful, I answered." So I wish that I had never been born. Just like them "(294 - 295). The mother 's words were not benevolent, but Jing Mei ultimately caused the collapse of relationships that they crossed the line and thought they could never be repaired.

Among the three stories of mother and daughter, Tillie Olsen's "I am ironing here", Amy Tan's "Two Hinds", and Alice Walker's "everyday use" all come from a variety of child rearing It shows how the role determines the fate of the daughter. , Dream, personality and career. In the story of author Tilly Olsen, she depicts a mother who only recognizes one of her daughters. But in the story of writer Amy Tan, it represents a mother taking care of her daughter. Unfortunately, the writer Alice Walker's story explains the mother's favor between her two daughters. These three stories emphasize the importance of the mother, so it proves the need for the mother to be a positive role model for her daughter.

Tillie Olsen's short story "I am ironing here" mother's decision, readers were introduced to the mother, she faced a strong civil war involving her elder daughter Emily. Emily 's mother announced a very meaningful statement at the end of the story. Her remark was that "she helps to know not only the clothes on the ironing board but also what was powerless in front of the iron" (Olson, 582). This sentence tells the reader that the mother wants to make her daughter's life better than his or her life.

A good example of modernism that "I am ironing here" by Tillie Olsen is a short story called "I ironed here". This story shows not only the role by gender but also the role as a family. Here, the narrator is the mother giving the reader a glimpse of her life, her choice as a mother, and she is a parent. Through her defense against her own situation, she reveals the potential anxieties of obsession with her mother to the reader. At the beginning of the story, the narrator explained the pain that she felt when she remembered the past and the choices she made.