Abstract
Tillie Olsen’s short story ‘I Stand Here Ironing’ is the story of relationship between a mother and her long separated child. The mother has not been regularly in touch with her elder child, her first daughter Emily, but the bond between the two has not waned with passage of time. Although the daughter has drifted away from the relationship, the mother still has strong emotional ties with her. The mother cannot forget the difficult days when she had to manage her job and also had to look after the child. She still holds herself responsible for those days when she had to leave the infant in the care of her neighbor, well knowing that the neighbor was not caring for the child as she would have done as a mother.
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