Analysis Of Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing

Rarely do we find a fictional short story capable of penetrating our most private quandaries regarding the quality of our personal decisions as we face inescapable dilemmas that encroach upon our lives. Tillie Olsen’s, “I Stand Here Ironing” exists as arguably the best fictional short story among the collection of stories included in this week’s reading assignments while considering how its setting and the narrator’s point of view vividly illustrate the literature’s theme through each primary character’s financial or societal dilemmas. Kirszner and Mandell (2012) explain how “We may classify well developed, closely involved and characters that grow through the course of a story as round or dynamic while categorizing the barely developed,

Although the setting and the conflicts and dilemmas the author presents appear somewhat different yet similar to those my daughter and I have experienced, and this connection was a primary factor in my decision to nominate this story as the best of our collection this week. I believe that we should at least acknowledge that there were more characters in the story than Emily and her mother. Frye (1981) also reveals how “Ronnie and Susan, Emily’s brother and sister assume subordinate character roles as he randomly requires the mother’s attention and she occasionally fosters hostilities with Emily.” Ronnie and Susan might arguably represent flat and rather static characters in this fictional short

As I explore the most efficient way to share the prevailing theme of this fictional short story, I believe that Ms. Frye struck the compelling truth found in this piece of work. Frye (1981) shares, “The final coherence of the mother is only the enriched understanding of the separateness of all people – even parents from children – and the necessity to perceive and foster the value of each autonomous selfhood although external constraints and forces will always present limits.” The author’s narrative style seems to capitalize on building natural and lifelike characters in a socioeconomic setting from an apparently challenging time in our nation’s history while using a point of view that speaks volumes to the internal conflict that parents face while raising children. The story may appear as the bitter pill representing the pains that parents and their children face regarding the constraints of social expectations and economic sustainability; however, I believe the author’s work created a virtual reality tour of this issue making it the best of the