Selling My Mother's Dress Ia Sher Analysis

More than Just a Family Tradition Throughout my short history on this earth very few things have remained constant and overtime I have come to the conclusion nothing in life is certain. During my life I’ve witnessed the fresh flower flourishing of the spring to the sudden silence of shrubbery of the autumn eighteen times and realized everything changes. A value instilled in me at a young age is to cherish the things we do have because we may not have it forever. I have inherited this belief from my mother who inherited it from hers. This is something I do day in and day out but the moment it all becomes very real is when I come across an item passed down throughout my family. One particular set of items that causes such strong emotions and memories to emerge is my family set of board games passed down from my grandmother. These games include; Clue, Sorry, Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, and
Mrs. Sher speaks of passing on her mother’s legacy through selling her dresses. Her mother’s dresses were not only a piece of trendy fabric but a piece of clothing that witnessed her mother’s life. She laughed in that dress, she loved in that dress, and she lived in that dress and now someone will have the opportunity to do the same in that dress. She says “That I am part of a continuum.” Through this ideal Abby Sher makes a connection with all of items passed on from person to person making all personal items part of a continuum holding memories of one person’s life to be shared with another and I cannot wait to play Monopoly with my children. I want to see their amazement when they see how old the game is and how good the condition is for its age and I definitely want to pass down the memories of great times much like my grandmother did to her daughter, my mother did to me, and Abby Sher did with anyone lucky enough to stumble upon on of her mother’s