Analysis Of I Stand Here Ironing By Tillie Olsen

In the story, I Stand Here Ironing, by Tillie Olsen, Olsen tells of the struggles of a mother and her feelings concerning her parenting of her oldest child. The Author has used the ethos in comparison by turning the reader’s attention to the reasoning’s the mother has concerning the way she raised her eldest child against her other children. “What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost?” States Emily’s mother to herself when thinking of the way she demanded her oldest daughter to act against the temper tantrums she had allowed in the younger children.

Emotionally, Emily’s mother was in turmoil about the way she was as a parent towards her oldest daughter. And the author has exposed this through the pathos of