'I Stand Here Ironing' By Tillie Olsen
Short Story Elements Checklist
Title: I Stand Here Ironing Author: Tillie Olsen
(Identify sentences/words/phrases in the story to support your information.)
Title (Significance?): The title prepares us for the narrator before we learn anything about her. Just like the title says “I stand here ironing”, is exactly what she is doing. The title gives us details about the narrator life such as; does not have a lot of money and probably has a large family.
Setting (Time, Place, Social Context-(Significance?)): The authors story takes place in the most common setting; a mother at home ironing. The narrator is in a working-class home, in a family that strains economically: America was just recovering from World War II.
Point of view (significance?): The story is told from inside the narrator head (first person). However, a third-person omniscient narrator; might have given us more details about the narrators home and physical appearance. …show more content…
She has to place Emily in a childcare where she was neglected and unloved. In the end of the story, the narrator does not seem to have come to a conclusion about her life. ( Round and Static)
• Emily: Since we only know Emily through the narrator point of view, she is a mysterious character in the story. Emily doesn’t demand attention; she never complains or ask for anything. (Flat and Dynamic)
• The Teacher: Although, the story never told us about who asked the question at the beginning of the story. But by the question we know that this character is somebody in a position to help a teenager. (Flat and Static)
• Susan: Susan is one of the narrators’ children; from her second marriage. Susan had a more comfortable life than Emily. (Round and
Title: I Stand Here Ironing Author: Tillie Olsen
(Identify sentences/words/phrases in the story to support your information.)
Title (Significance?): The title prepares us for the narrator before we learn anything about her. Just like the title says “I stand here ironing”, is exactly what she is doing. The title gives us details about the narrator life such as; does not have a lot of money and probably has a large family.
Setting (Time, Place, Social Context-(Significance?)): The authors story takes place in the most common setting; a mother at home ironing. The narrator is in a working-class home, in a family that strains economically: America was just recovering from World War II.
Point of view (significance?): The story is told from inside the narrator head (first person). However, a third-person omniscient narrator; might have given us more details about the narrators home and physical appearance. …show more content…
She has to place Emily in a childcare where she was neglected and unloved. In the end of the story, the narrator does not seem to have come to a conclusion about her life. ( Round and Static)
• Emily: Since we only know Emily through the narrator point of view, she is a mysterious character in the story. Emily doesn’t demand attention; she never complains or ask for anything. (Flat and Dynamic)
• The Teacher: Although, the story never told us about who asked the question at the beginning of the story. But by the question we know that this character is somebody in a position to help a teenager. (Flat and Static)
• Susan: Susan is one of the narrators’ children; from her second marriage. Susan had a more comfortable life than Emily. (Round and