Comparing The First Seven Years 'And I Wish I Had Said'

"The First Seven Years," the story of Jacob and Rachel, the poem, "I Wish I Had Said...," and the Time article theme treated in each story is that love is hard work. Some examples of this in “The First Seven Years” Feld promised if Sobel, his shoemaking assistant, would wait two more years, he would allow him to marry his daughter Miriam. Another example is the story of Jacob and Rachel, Laban, altho he told him seven years, made Jacob work a total of fourteen years so that he could wed Racheal. Finally, because she did not like the new way to find a date, Erin Davis made a dating service. Erin Davis of New York City created a new way for singles to match, but it was for men and women of the Jewish faith. A difference from the rest of the stories