How is Howard 's mother a reflection of the Jewish mother stereotype ?
Like Helmreich , Fishman observes that while it began as a universal " gender " stereotype , exemplified by Erik Erikson 's critique of " Momism " in 1950 and Philip Wylie 's blast , in his 1942 " Generation of Vipers " , against " dear old Mom " tying all of male America to her apron strings , it quickly became highly associated with Jewish mothers in particular , in part because the idea became a staple of Jewish American fiction .