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A Mother’s Decision In the short story "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen, the reader is introduced to a mother faced with a strong internal conflict involving her eldest daughter Emily. Emily’s mother makes a very meaningful statement at the end of the story. Her statement was "help [Emily] to know that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron" (Olsen, 582). T ....
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.... a young child who was self-conscience about her appearance, "thin and foreign-looking at a time when every girl was supposed to look [like the] replica of Shirley Temple" (Olsen, 580). Emily’s mother pondered several ways to comfort her daughter’s physical insecurities. The next big decision that Emily’s mother had to make was sending Emily to a convalescent home. The mother was persuaded to send Emily to this school by a social worker ....
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