I Stand Here Ironing
Marissa Anthony
Dr. Brennen
English 111 October 15, 2014
We all have our Flaws
“The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story that discusses how the narrator suffers from both depression and anxiety. The mother has a little boy who she is unable to care for due to her illnesses, and that is only making her suffer even more. She wants more than anything to take care of her child and live a normal life, but she can’t. The narrator lived in the restrictive Victorian time period, and experienced how difficult it is to have your voice heard as a woman. “I Stand Here Ironing” written by Tillie Olsen is a short story about a mother who has a daughter during the Great Depression, and the father leaves her to care for …show more content…
I'm sure you can help me understand her. She's a youngster who needs help and whom I'm deeply interested in helping." The mother paid this woman no attention and didn’t believe that she needed anyone to tell her how to raise her child, but she was wrong. Emily, a child who experienced pain and neglect, had no true mother to care for her. Emily’s mother faced several challenges while raising her. She had to work the night shift, didn’t have anyone to watch Emily, and she wasn’t making much money from her job. She had to send Emily to live with some family on her dad’s side, and she missed some of Emily’s childhood years, but it only got worse when she met her second husband Bill. Instead of trying to spend more time with Emily she just kept popping out children like it was her second job, and left Emily to fin for herself. Emily’s mother said, “They persuaded me at the clinic to send her away to a convalescent home in the country where she can have the kind of food and care you can't manage for her, and you'll be free to concentrate on the new baby." The mother is only focusing on herself, and not Emily. She can barely take care of her first child and she shouldn’t keep conceiving children until she is more stable. Susan, her second child was a beautiful blonde haired blue-eyed baby who resembled Shirley Temple. That only made Emily more insecure since she has brown her and darker
Dr. Brennen
English 111 October 15, 2014
We all have our Flaws
“The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story that discusses how the narrator suffers from both depression and anxiety. The mother has a little boy who she is unable to care for due to her illnesses, and that is only making her suffer even more. She wants more than anything to take care of her child and live a normal life, but she can’t. The narrator lived in the restrictive Victorian time period, and experienced how difficult it is to have your voice heard as a woman. “I Stand Here Ironing” written by Tillie Olsen is a short story about a mother who has a daughter during the Great Depression, and the father leaves her to care for …show more content…
I'm sure you can help me understand her. She's a youngster who needs help and whom I'm deeply interested in helping." The mother paid this woman no attention and didn’t believe that she needed anyone to tell her how to raise her child, but she was wrong. Emily, a child who experienced pain and neglect, had no true mother to care for her. Emily’s mother faced several challenges while raising her. She had to work the night shift, didn’t have anyone to watch Emily, and she wasn’t making much money from her job. She had to send Emily to live with some family on her dad’s side, and she missed some of Emily’s childhood years, but it only got worse when she met her second husband Bill. Instead of trying to spend more time with Emily she just kept popping out children like it was her second job, and left Emily to fin for herself. Emily’s mother said, “They persuaded me at the clinic to send her away to a convalescent home in the country where she can have the kind of food and care you can't manage for her, and you'll be free to concentrate on the new baby." The mother is only focusing on herself, and not Emily. She can barely take care of her first child and she shouldn’t keep conceiving children until she is more stable. Susan, her second child was a beautiful blonde haired blue-eyed baby who resembled Shirley Temple. That only made Emily more insecure since she has brown her and darker