I Stand Here Ironing

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"I Stand Here Ironing" is a short story by Tillie Olsen. It was published in her short story collection Tell Me A Riddle in 1961. The narrator is a single mother of several children remembering the way she parented her first two children and thinking about what she would have done differently when parenting her first child. It is one of her most anthologized works.

[edit] References

Kelly, Joseph, ed. The Seagull Reader Stories. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001.

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“I stand here Ironing” Tillie Olsen

Setting- The story is set in the late 1950s or early 1960s in the working class home of the narrator. Character/ Emily – A nineteen-year old shy and passive girl. She is the older of two girls. She developed a talent for comedic acting. Emily’s Father – deserted the family less than one year after her birth.