I Stand Here Ironing

"I Stand Here Ironing" was written in the pre-relief of the depression. People are not living in the depression today but they do experience certain events taht the people experienced then. In this story a character, Emily, had a child at the age on 19. Still today people have children at such a young age as Emily did. Emily also had to leave her child with someone else to watch her because she had to work (284). People now days still have to leave their young children in the hands of others so they can work, many people do not want to leave there children with others when they are young but in order to work that is what they have to do. Some poeple have to leave there children at nurseries that don't care for there children, so to speak, because they can't afford better and so that they can keep there jobs, just as Emily's mother had to do. Emily was sent to a convalescent home where she could be take care of but when she got there she felt that they didn't want anybody to love anybody there (286). Today, some kids who are really sick due to illness may have to be sent to the hospital and be put in an isolation room. The nurses and doctors have to put a limit on the number of visitors to visit the child so the child does not become sicker by what the visitors bring in or so that they child does not make someone else sick. The child may not understand that it is for his/her safety that the visitors are limited and that the doctors don't want anyone to love anybody, just like Emily felt. Mothers have to work and the oldest child has to the be mother model just like Emily had to be for her mother. People also were poor during the depression and "couldn't afford for eash growth" (288), namy people are poor now and can't afford for "easy growth". It may not be as bad as it was during the depression but it could become that way easily.