Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love And Acceptance
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Essay #1:
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 ....
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.... Emily's mother admits "my wisdom came too late." The mothers
unknowingly gave Emily and Maggie second best.
Both mothers compare their two daughters to each other. In Everyday Use
the mother tells us that "Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a
fuller figure." She Fahning -2-speaks of the fire that burned and scarred
Maggie. She tells us how Maggie is not bright, how she shuffles when she
walks. Comparing her with Dee whose feet vwere always neat-looking, as if
God himself ....
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