life. The fact that her mother, the narrator, felt so attached to her daughter, Emily, makes me feel that the two had some sort of connection within each of their respected childhoods. It almost appears that the narrator wants us to feel that connection by expressing her emotions so vividly and with such emotional detail that you are almost forced to feel that childs pain, happiness, and struggle through the narrator views and battles. When Elaine Orr expresses the mothers connection with her daughter, as though it is her same childhood that is being examined as the basis for Emilys existence, she states: Emily, without father and often separated from the mother, is skeleton thin, dark, quiet, slow, and thoughtful.(EO 80) The narrator is, seemingly, expressing how she grew up. The question that is posed here is, why would a mother say such words about her daughter, with such animosity, and describe her in such a way; unless she too was brought up the same way or had the same experiences as her child? This leaves a statement on the narrators views and feelings during the time of her daughters childhood about how she feels Emily will grow up as well. The narrator, her mother, is almost predicting her daughters future by stating many detailed descriptions of feelings, which she may have felt as well in her childhood, and applying them to her life. Now this story has many contrasting images in it to provoke the ever on-going experiences that the narrator speaks about in such graphic reality. She speaks of the iron, and how it is a very Alienating object, which pulls the daughter and her mother apart(EO 80) And that at one point in time it actually acts as a Alienation from her mothers (narrator) work(EO 80). Now the narrator points out, with the distinction of the iron, that maybe it showed how her mother was in the same situation that she is now, and that the feelings that she felt, too, at that point in her life, are being expressed. Th...
