Essay Archive - Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love and Acceptance
Essay #1: Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love and Acceptance
Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing, and Alice Walker's Everyday Use, both
address the issue of a mother's guilt over how her children turn out. Both
mothers blamed themselves for their daughter's problems. While I Stand
Here Ironing is obviously about the mousy daughter, in Everyday Use this is
camouflaged by the fact most of the action and dialog involves the mother
and older sister Dee. Neither does the mother in Everyday Use say outright
that she feels guilty, but we catch a glimpse of it when Dee is trying very
hard to claim the handmade q....
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