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Tillie Olsen's classic story of the Great Depression and World War II, "I Stand Here Ironing," parallels two generations—a 38-year-old mother and her 19-year-old daughter, Emily. Published in a collection, Tell Me a Riddle (1956), and the following year in The Best American Short Stories of 1957, the brief piece gained feminist fame in the 1960s for its commentary on the hard choices that confront the single working parent. "Hills Like White Elephants" is a quiet but powerful commentary on the death of love, as traditional morality is eclipsed. By setting his tale in Spain, a Catholic ...