“Everyday Use” and “I Stand Here Ironing” are two narratives that touch on family values and the importance to be compacted with your relatives. Both of these stories are told in the perspective of the mother, the person best known as the stronghold within the family, dealing with the hardships of motherhood. While similar in message, the situations in which our narrators are thrown in are quite different with the mother from “I Stand Here Ironing” regretting for her absence of motherly nurturing for Emily, while the mother in “Everyday Use” breaks the forbidden rule of preference over her children. Similar in character structure, each mother have an older daughter that have their own “trait” that alters the perspective of the mother, causing the mothers to fault over their skills of being a mother. However, both stories have similar plot structure in the fact in which the daughters eventually overcoming over their struggles, almost feeling the emotion of praise radiating from the mothers through the author’s use of diction. With each story’s author conveying the importance of family values, even though every family has a dilemma of their own, that a family must always stay compacted and never be torn apart.
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