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possessions rather than emotional feelings, which
can cause giving children less familiar attention
than they require. Many children suffer from low
self-esteem and the inability to share their
feelings because of not receiving enough emotional
support from their parent(s). Children who lack
emotional support reluctantly tends to hide their
feelings and are not able to get close to other
I Stand Here Ironing, by Tillie Olsen, begins
with a mother who is struggling in life and has a
lot of obligations to fulfill. "I stand here
ironing and what you asked me moves tormented back
and forth with the iron." This quote means even
while the mother is busy she still thinks about her
children and the comments they make. "I wish you
would manage the time to come in and talk-"; The
mother really does care about her children, but she
just doesn't know how to show her love and worry
about all the chores and obligations she has. "She
was eight months old I had to leave her daytime's",
"Emily's father, who could no longer endure." The
mother is having a hard time because her husband
responsibilities of a young child. The mother is
. . .
always has a reason to stay home. Emily has a low self-esteem and
tends to not share her feelings with anyone, and
she keeps her feelings to herself.
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You may use this paper how every you want. In the story, I Stand Here Ironing,
the author, Tillie Olsen, shows several examples of
how the lack of love and support affected Emily's
life. "She fretted about her
appearance"; Emily doesn't not look like Susan or
her mother which makes her feel she is not part of
the family. "It took a
long time to raise the money for her fare back.
As shown in the examples I have given in the
above paragraphs, Emily lacked emotional support as
a young girl.
When Emily's mother is pregnant with Susan,
Emily becomes sick with red measles. "Aren't you ever
going to finish the ironing, Mother?", when Emily
says this to her mother she is saying don't you
have something to do; because her mother never had
time for her when she was little why would she have
time now? At the end of the story, Emily and her
mother seem to come to some sort of agreement, so
that they are getting along better. Since Emily is not a part of
Susan's life, she feels neglected and not part of
the family.
Since Emily felt she was given up her emotional
state is very low and she doesn't have a lot to do
with her mother. The social workers are involved in Emily's
life because Emily's mother is not a fit mother;
the social workers are just making sure Emily has
the best care possible. Her reason for
staying home is not because the teacher is "evil",
but because she wants her mom to spend time with
her.
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