What does the iron and the act of ironing mean in you stand here ironing?

Answer:
By the mother ironing, she is trying to smooth out the "wrinkles" that occurred while she was raising her daughter. Or, in other words, the mistakes she made. At the end of the story, her daughter tells her to stop ironing and get going. The mother needs to stop going over the mistakes of the past and move forward.
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