Life's a peculiar process. You grow and get nourishment, you sleep and wake, you live and die. All are rudimentary essentials to life, however there is on thing that makes life worth living and that is love. Love is the building block of all relationships whether big or small and it's the glue to a healthy family. One can arguably agree that these stories exemplify this form of love. Both stories (My Lady's Maid & My Sisters Marriage) respectively share a common theme, from the protagonists point of view that there is nothing more important in life than being loved or wanting to be loved.
Everyone grows up with a sense of insecurity in life at one point or another and with a sense of need. We all need to feel included in whatever we feel exclude from because without feeling wanted in life one can slip into the dark shadow of depression. Both stories exemplify this form of wanting to be needed. Sara-Ann feels as though her father is ignoring her
Many have questioned the meaning of love and it's usefulness but these two Stories (Lady's Maid & My Sisters Marriage) have shown what the lack of love can force one to do. It forced Sara-Ann to seek the veneration from her father in a slanderous way and it influenced Ellen's regretful annulment of her wedding with Henry. "To love is to be loved", said the great philosopher Jermaine, but "To live a life without love is to live in the empty shell of life.
Whereas Ellen's quest for love was innocent because she was literally rejected by her Grand-Father when she was a child, Sara-Ann's quest was based on jealousy, "Lets play house... I thought it wasn't fare, just because Olive was three years older than me that she should always be the mother. I wanted to sit opposite my father at dinner and have him smile at me like that." (p.186) Sara-Ann feels as though her father had renounced what little love for her and gave it to Olive, his favorite dau
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