Comparing The First Seven Years And I Wish I Had Said

Throughout the texts, “The First Seven Years,” the story of Jacob and Rachel, the poem, "I Wish I Had Said...," and the Time article, the common theme of love is treated similarly and differently. For example, in the Time article and “First Seven Years,” both of the main characters are playing matchmaker and trying to find a person a spouse. Feld is trying to play matchmaker and find Miriam a young, good looking man to be her husband, but Miriam has different ideas, when she discovers Max is boring and a materialist. Similarly, since the Time article has matchmaker, Erin Davis, the texts are related because they are both trying to find people that they will fall in love with. In contrast, parents like Laban, Rachel’s father, decides who she