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 and would frequently express it over dinner, "Olive everyday you remind me of your mother." This comment hurt Sara-Ann because she bore a striking resemblance to Olive and feels as though if Olive is getting praise because she looks like her mother than so should she. Conversely to the ignoring attitude that Sara-Ann received from her father, Ellen (protagonist-Lady's Maid) was once venerated by her grand- father but was rejected not ignored for "snipping her hair to bits", "I cut of all my hair; snipped it off all to bits, like the little monkey I was. Grand-father was furious." She ran away shortly after searching for love and she began to work for a lady for whom she took care-of. She loves the Lady and believes the lady loves her.
             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 w
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