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What does it say? In the story “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, the mother feels that in order to have that strong relationship between the mother and the children you have to spend a great amount of time with them. As her being a mother she explains that trying to give all five of her children the same amount of love for each other is very hard because of the amount of work that is having to be put in. Being able to care for a family is a strong thing because if she isn’t able to show the care and support them as well needed as a family does then there isn’t going to be that love for the whole family and then that will just break down the relationship between everyone.
Showing love for all five children at once isn’t easy and as she explains it’s just about impossible for that to be happening. There are times when she feels that it’s just time to give up but she knows that her children are everything to her and if she doesn’t build that relationship then
Sometimes the family isn’t going to have the best things handed in front of them because of the great depression based right after this story was written. Just by saying that anybody is going to be able to understand that the situations are not going to be the best for the families. For trying to build the relationship between the mother and the daughter this isn’t the greatest topic to be talking about. The daughter is most likely not to see it but the mother is working her hardest for everything to get done so they are being the best supported possible. It hard for everything to work out in the family at this time during the great depression because of the amount of work that is having to be put in for little outcome. The mother has to look at everything that she has done and she is most likely going to be able to say that she has done everything possible for the

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