My Mother Never Worked Analysis

In the essay “My Mother Never Worked”, by A Bonnie Smith-Yackel. Smith-Yackel tries to collect her deceased mothers Social Security. But the thing was her mother never had a wage earning job. Irony exists in this essay because it makes the reader curious about the how the author feels. In the very same sense, readers can only think of the hard work mothers do to ensure the success of their children in the future. The struggle of her mother was too great she feels obligated to require social security from the government for being a mother. In the Essay Smith- Yackel writes “In the winter she sewed night after night, endlessly, begging cast-off clothing from relatives, ripping apart coats, dresses, blouses, and trousers to remake them to fit