How convincing is the point of view?

The story’s point of view is authentic and convincing. The
narrator is a woman of thirty-eight doing the common domestic chore of ironing clothes
(in the days before permanent-press clothing). Her narration is not so much a story as a
meditative recollection prompted by a presumably recent telephone call from a college
counselor. One might also think of the narrative as an interior monologue or conscious
musing, designed for a specific listener, but never heard or seen by him or her. At one
point in the narrative (paragraph 16) the narrator becomes so affected by her
recollection that she puts her iron down. At the end, she considers the iron again and
it suggests to her a negative comparison with her daughter (paragraph 55). The narrator
realizes that Emily is an individual with her own life and the capacity to make free
choices, unlike the dress being ironed.