My Father

Olsen adds blame on the government for why the narrator’s husband left by telling us that this happened before the Work Progress Administration, as to say it is the government’s fault for acting too late. When the narrator finally finds a job, she could not get one with hours well enough to be with her child. The narrator loved the way her baby reacted to the lights, colors, and music and was understandably crushed that she had to leave her baby with a neighbor so she could work (Olsen, Paragraph 8). Olsen uses this to blame the government for not coming up with a plan to help single mothers... ... middle of paper ... ...he ironing board,” that is, she hopes Emily learns her self-worth and does not allow herself to care more about getting wrinkles out of clothes than caring for her children. Olsen used Emily as an example of how the government cares more about business than people, thus why I believe she sustained an attack on a heartless, bureaucratic government in “I Stand Here Ironing.” She writes about how the government left the narrator to fend for herself and her child when her husband left her to escape the poverty they were in.

She mentioned that once her little sister was born, she became jealous and envious. I emphasized with her by stating that she must have felt as though her little sister was going to take the attention that she sought from her mother. After confirming that her mother paid more attention to her sister and stepfather, she mentioned that during this time she began to cut herself in places that no one would notice. The pain did not take the feeling away, but she wanted to know that if she could still feel pain after the thought of losing everything. However, the only person who paid her any attention during this time, was her grandmother.

A challenge that changed my entire life, mindset and the way I used to approach to problems in life. When I got married, I had to leave my widowed mother alone and this was the hardest separation in her life after my father’s death. My mother didn’t take our separation easy at all;

I change my social activities slightly and decided I wanted to change my views on life and do everything I was able to. I was left with numerous exceptions of continuing family traditions and gathering details were left to m... ... middle of paper ... ...at once my grandmother had passed in January of last year, my grandfather had become depressed change all of sleep habits and was emotionally hurting. He had become angry with not only his self but with our family for the small things. I know understand that we was going through his own grieving process and didn’t know how to deal with insecurities of how life was going to be without my grandmother. This healing process of grief at times in our life is so complicated to understand and cope with.

After she told us it was as if a shield she’d been holding had crumbled and she had cried with us at her side. Now our mom was to fully take on the role of a single mother of two young children, not to mention our older siblings she still had to worry about with the oldest still in college and the other moving across the country. When I look back to these days after his death I begin to notice things my mom did for us that I mightn’t have even blinked at then. I didn’t realize yet just how much she did and is doing. After that I really looked closely at all that she does and decided my mom truly is my personal Michigan hero.

And, after her mother passed away, they all drifted away from each other. Cheryl did everything she could to keep her family together, but I think she felt as if no one else w... ... middle of paper ... ...ad completely different relationships with their parents. . I look at her relationship differently not only because her mother is dead and their fathers are alive, but because their relationships were completely different. Cheryl actually had a relationship with her mother, and a pretty good one at that.

Critic Paul... ... middle of paper ... ...etry with the negative relationship she had with her father is the actual facts. Examining the actual biography of Sylvia Plath is enough to connect the two parallels. Any child who was abandoned by a parent at a young age is subject to blaming the parent for all the problems they had through their childhood. Plath’s father was obviously going to have to take at least partial blame for the struggle Plath’s family encountered after his death. Plath’s mother had to face a substantial battle and give up most of the life she once had to focus on her children and make an attempt to provide a concrete home life for them to mature into.

That night was followed by many tears and yelling. I felt like I was an embarrassment and the black sheep of the family. My mother felt guilty like it was her fault this happened because she wouldn’t get me on birth control. My daughter coming into my life started as a nightmare that was never ending and became a gift through living through my parents’ reaction, surviving high school and thriving in college. My parents’ reaction might have been like any other parents’ reaction would be, but I think their reaction was worse.

That night was followed by many tears and yelling. I felt like I was an embarrassment and the black sheep of the family. My mother felt guilty like it was her fault this happened because she wouldn’t get me on birth control. My daughter coming into my life started as a nightmare that was never ending and became a gift through living through my parents’ reaction, surviving high school and thriving in college. My parents’ reaction might have been like any other parents’ reaction would be, but I think their reaction was worse.

Quote 2: “Since the day I’d left Yorido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path” (Golden 419). 1. S/W: Chiyo is having a hard time pleasing her new family and is fearful of ending up in places like Satsu is. iii. Quote 3: “But to learn in a single moment that both my mother and my father had died and left me, and that my sister too was lost to me forever… at once my mind felt like a broken vase that would not stand I was lost even within the room around me” (Golden 103) 1.