<P> Point of view: The story is told from a mother's first person point of view . The narrator, a remarried mother of five children, remembers the way she parented her first child, Emily . Her thoughts, and the story, are about what she would have done differently while parenting Emily if she had been more experienced and had better options . It is one of Olsen's most anthologized works . </P> <P> The story is about guilt, guilt that will be developed during the narration of the whole story . The mother is standing here ironing and within the next 30 minutes she will recall the whole trip of her and her daughter life . Trying to find an answer for: what she can do now when it is too late? Her feeling that her daughter can claim her responsible for her suffering was the main idea in this short story . </P> <P> The story moves through a fairly long timeframe; although it is set in the early 1950s, it looks back to the 1930s (the time of the Great Depression), and the 1940s (the time of the Second World War). The story is set in the working class home of the narrator, who comments that when her first child was born, they "were poor and could not afford for her the soil of easy growth ."... </P> <P> The story style reflect idea flow of narration, the phone call from the school and guilt led her for a full review to her life while she is ironing . </P>

When does i stand here ironing take place