Question

Can someone help with these two MLA questions I have. Please please...I need to turn this paper today :/ Thank you, I will post the questions below

Answer 1

When Emily asks her, “Aren’t you ever going to finish the ironing, Mother?” (Olsen 317), the mother is reminiscing and hoping she could remove Emily’s sad childhood.

Answer 2

Whenever Emily would need her mother, the mother admits, “She would call for me, and I would rouse from exhaustion to sleepily call back: ‘You’re all right, darling, go to sleep, it’s just a dream’. . .” (Olsen 314).


ARE THE QUOTANTION MARKS IN THE CORRECT PLACE? THE ORIGINAL QUOTE IS THIS ONE:

She would call for me, and I would rouse from exhaustion to sleepily call back: "You’re all right, darling, go to sleep, it’s just a dream,"

Answer 3

Looks good to me. In the original quote, something follows the word "dream"? That is not the end of the sentence? If so, then the ellipsis in your version is correct.

If you are writing only about this one story, you need not repeat the author's name each time in the parenthetical citation. In fact, since you'd be establishing first in your own text what the story is and who the author is, you ought never to need to include the author's name here. Or are you writing about several stories? Even if so, your own treatment in text must make clear when you are shifting from one story to another, so you ought to need only the page numbers. Or am I misconstruing your context in some way?