When watching the short story "I stand here Ironing," I had a different feeling of the story
then when reading it. Watching the video had harsh prospective, she seemed mad and frustrated
with her daughter. When I read it I felt like she was just a concerned parent for her child. It is
amazing how one person can interpret a story such as "I stand her ironing", and another person
might read or see it in such a different light. My personal views on the video verses reading it
were, actions, mood, and severity of the issues.
First of all in the video "I stand here Ironing," the mother seemed so focused on her
thoughts of her daughter, that she was taking it out on her ironing. Her actions were jerky,
rough, and deliberate. When I read the story I felt much different. In my mind I thought of a
caring woman quietly and softly working, struggling for an answer for her many questions an how
Second, the video showed a mood of up most intense feelings, whereas reading the story it
just seemed as an every day worry that would pass with the wind. The mood is so drastically
different to me from the video to reading it. The mothers mood was tense and very thick. She
seemed distraught and so consumed with the situation. When reading it I felt she was upset but
not to the point of frustration. The mood seemed to be lighter and a matter of fact.
Last but not least, in the video she seemed like she was going to explode if she did not
come up with a solution immediately. Her actions seem so strong that the issues seemed to be a
major part of her life to figure it out and soon. When reading it the issues seemed to be there but
not over taking her life to figure out how to fix the situation. It did not seem that she was
consumed with fixing her daughters life but had a caring, loving, wanting to show her she cared
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