Character Analysis “I Stand Here ironing”

What society doesnt grasp is the difficulties it is to maintain this character in the struggles of balancing work, parenting, and everyday life to the underprivileged though the narrator did what she could as a parent even with facing all the difficulties and dilemma she came across. The bank clerk in l Stand Here Ironing holds a minacious heart of guilt for her lack of involvement for her fille and the path she off out, but at the resembling time she knows she derrieret hold all the blame. L Stand here Ironing opens with the narrator being asked to come in and speak about her daughter. We are never told who is asking this, but whoever is seeking Information from the narrator believed that her daughter Emily needs alp. The narrator expresses that Emily is the first of quint children. She goes into deeply explaining Emily as The first and only one of our five that was bewitching at birth. (402) our narrator proceeds to assure us that Emily father odd them therefore worn 2 old.Due to the situation at hand our narrator had to send Emily away to her fathers family at a young age. The reasoning was so that she could make enough money to live a somewhat abiding life and also have the proper care for her daughter as she worked. Unfortunately the proper care situation wasnt as simple as one loud think. When our narrator placed Emily in a glasshouse school she expresses to us how unfriendly the location was, but It was the only way we could be together, the only way I could hold a Job. (404) veracious here is one point where we can see things arent the comes fault. She wants to be with her daughter and the same time she has to work to provide for her so she has no superior but to take the opportunities that are available to her even if these opportunities are not what she prefers. When our narrator goes into having her second child Susan we pack that Emily has become delirious with the febricity that comes before red measles .. . (405). Emily was fa mily unit alone for the week her mother was in the hospital after giving birth to Susan.When our narrator is home again she expresses that Emily did not start to get much better she explains her as . . Skeleton thin, not wanting to eat, and night after night she had nightmares. (405) we learn that Emily calls for her mother when she has these nightmares but from being over and to go back to bed. last later as she said is too late she begins to start languid 3 hacking on Emily she hears her cried but Emily doesnt need or I calculate you could say want the union at this point.Later we learn that a clinic lambaste our narrator into sending Emily away to Convalescent home (405). The clinic basically tell our narrator that she cant give Emily the proper care she need and by doing this she can focus on her new baby. When Emily is sent away they are unable(p) to visit her for the first six weeks because the institute decides when they are able to. at once they start visiting we are taught that this place is not of the homiest places, Emily does not be intimate her ATA, and they kind of treat her as a prisoner.When Emily returns home she refuses food and affection from her mother. Emily over the years has had much spending which our narrator does understand, but at the same time she had little options, and was also instructed that being sent away was the beat out for her daughter. To wrap things up we can see pretty clearly that our vote counter did in fact love her daughter. Our narrator never intended to neglect Emily from the love and affection she deserved, but she didnt have many options to choose from.