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In the story I Stand Here Ironing, the subject of the conversation is Emily, a young shy teen who seems to be victim of neglect. Before she turned one her father left the family. Leaving her mother to fend for the two of them. During the ages to come she would be in competition with her younger sister who seemed to be everything Emily wasn’t in appearances.

not much happens: the narrator irons some dresses and exchanges a few words with her daughter. The real action is internal, a form of biographical

a child "of...

Posted by: Novelett Roberts

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