In this story it is the everyday task that helps the woman reflect on her daughters life and how she and her life circumstances affected it. There has obviously been a call from the school concerning the daughter and the mother has no idea how to go about explaining everything to the school so she reflects silently to herself as she "stands here ironing."
In today's world I am sure there is a lot of this that occurs. People who live in poverty or other stressful situations often do not want to let people know what has occured in their lives, or they have no idea where to begin. I know there are many things in my past I am not comfortable talking about or that I am not proud of, but it was the circumstances thrown at me by life and I survived and have worked my way around them in my head. The mother in the story feels bad for what occurred with her daughter, but she couldn't do anything else so she has to live with it and try to help her daughter live with it.
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