The Mother-Daughter Relationships In Richard Olsen's Story
Depression, the mothers works long shift which makes it real hard for her to take care of her daughter. A single mother, working at a time when a more traditional, middle-class, stay-at-home. Moms used to me the housewife in American society. Olsen's story takes us inside the mind of the mother as she faces the role of a breadwinner was a female. The story also gives us overlook of the challenges that her daughter had to face because of she is being the breadwinner. Even though the mother-daughter relationship in Olsen's story doesn't fit stereotype that is in mainstream but rather explain the strong bond and their love for each other as they share their struggles.
language and communication was groundbreaking is this story. This work is
taken place on 1978 when feminism and class in American literature was called Silences. It's not shocking, then, that this story shows as much concern for language as it does for the unspoken, the unwritten, the silenced. The characters in "I Stand Here Ironing" live in a world in which fluency in literature is expensive, where the burden of work and the demands of motherhood is more likely to happen in a conversation or dialogue. But the absence of spoken words in the story doesn't mean an absence of thoughts or feelings. The narrator is having conversation inside her head, we hear thoughts and feelings emerge as they develop on the page.
Power plays big role in this story of Olsen’s story. This story reveals a deeply doubt attitude toward those who hold positions of power, whether they are the wealthy, the government, hospitals or schools. Those in power are blind to the needs of the working class. Charity is only an excuse not to give the working class real opportunities such as a livable wage and survive in life. Doubtfulness is also informed by a post-World War II overview that has witnessed the power of just the atomic bomb which political power is associated with death. The story attempts to make visible the real lives of the working class, from their own way of looking at the situation by explaining all the struggle and experience working class had to face.
Conclusion:
language and communication was groundbreaking is this story. This work is
taken place on 1978 when feminism and class in American literature was called Silences. It's not shocking, then, that this story shows as much concern for language as it does for the unspoken, the unwritten, the silenced. The characters in "I Stand Here Ironing" live in a world in which fluency in literature is expensive, where the burden of work and the demands of motherhood is more likely to happen in a conversation or dialogue. But the absence of spoken words in the story doesn't mean an absence of thoughts or feelings. The narrator is having conversation inside her head, we hear thoughts and feelings emerge as they develop on the page.
Power plays big role in this story of Olsen’s story. This story reveals a deeply doubt attitude toward those who hold positions of power, whether they are the wealthy, the government, hospitals or schools. Those in power are blind to the needs of the working class. Charity is only an excuse not to give the working class real opportunities such as a livable wage and survive in life. Doubtfulness is also informed by a post-World War II overview that has witnessed the power of just the atomic bomb which political power is associated with death. The story attempts to make visible the real lives of the working class, from their own way of looking at the situation by explaining all the struggle and experience working class had to face.
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