The Laundry Basket Theme

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The short story, The Laundry Basket, by Lee Maracle touches on many important themes and issues throughout text. In this short text Maracle manages to cover issues ranging from the daily struggles of an indigenous woman, to the power imbalance present between the white man and the indigenous people. The most pressing issue acknowledged in this excerpt, however, is the battle of a mother and wife against the idea of what she should be doing with her time versus what she wants to be doing and her aspirations.
A defining moment in the text relating to the theme is when the narrator describes her way of saving time as akin to, "the way misers save money." Misers are considered to be extremely stingy people who reserve their money for the bare

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