"I stand here ironing" half interpretation, half book report

I Stand Here Ironing

        I stand here press and what you have asked me moves tormented back and forth with the campaign (McQuade 73).

She was a beautiful youngster. You did non know all those years she was plan homely, or see her poring over her baby pictures, making me declaim her over and over how beautiful she had been- and would be, I would tell her- and was now, to the beholding Eye. But seeing eyes were few or nonexistent. Including mine.(McQuade 73). She was such(prenominal) a beautiful baby, and loved the world around her. When Emily was octette months old, fathers left them to fend for themselves. Emilys m other was nineteen when she was born, it was during the depression, work was with child(p) to find. It came to where Emily had to be sent to her fathers family and left there, she was there for a farseeing time because it took a long time to get sufficiency money for her fare back. When she came back, she was no longer beautiful,all the baby loveliness gone (McQuade 74).

When Emily was two, she was sent to nursery school, her mother knew that she did not like it. Even though Emily was not like the other children, ...never a direct protest, never rebellion.



I think of our others in their three-, four-year oldness- the explosions, the tempers, the denunciations, the demands, -- and I feel suddenly ill. I put the iron down.( McQuade 74). Her mother demanded this good behavior, but what was the cost of this to Emily? Smiling did not come easily to Emily, her face is closed and somber, but when she wants, how runny (McQuade 74). She has a gift of comedy that provokes laughter out of the auditory modality so treasured that want her to keep...

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