The Ever-Changing Intensity of Love “The Maytrees” by Annie Dillard is a novel about the love and relationship between Lou and Toby Maytree over the course of their lives, as their son is born. and even as the intensity has faded from their love and Maytree loves another woman. Frida

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This essay will use the works The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, ‘Fun Home’ by Alison Bechdel, and ‘All the Birds in the Sky’ by Charlie Jane Anders to contrast the ideas of the personal good and the greater good. The Yellow Wallpaper and ‘All the Birds in the