I Stand Here Ironing

1. The narrator in this story is the mother and the point of view is interior monologue.
2. The mother seems to mention 'you' to a person who have responsibility to help her with her daughter.
3. The mother was 19 years old when she gave birth to Emily, her daughter.
4. The situation was the young mother in are she was left by her husband, stuck in the depression world and poor.
5. In how old her daughter should be in nursery school. The results of following the advice of experts is her daughter had been treated badly in the nursery school.
6. The relationship between Emily and Susan is stepsister. This is because Emily's mother married again after being left by Emily's father.
7. These hardships affected Emily to be a passive person because her mother did not spend much time with her as her mother is busy with her career. Her life experience that gone through unhappy family institution, poverty, and unpopularity in school had made her lost her self-confidence and self-esteem.
8. Emily discovered that she has talent in acting.
9. The mother feels that there is no necessity of her go to school to talk about her daughter. This is proved when she talked on the phone with somebody that are willing to help daughter, says that she still cannot make things better even if she come to the school.
10. The iron symbolize the responsibility of the mother to take care her daughter, Emily. While the ironing board symbolize the ways of the mother to take care of her daughter without her husband, how the mother takes care of Emily since she was born.