Summary Of Oh, Brother ! By Hara Estroff

“Oh, Brother!” is an article written by Hara Estroff who implies that siblings are born to compete for parental control and the strategies they use wind up in their personality later on in life. She tells the story of different families with all different sibling rivalries. The Alman’s never fought but they lived far away from each other which could absolutely help with sibling competition. The Well’s is a family with 3 siblings living under the same roof. Shanley Wells is the oldest with a brother and sister who are 5 to 6 years younger than her. She feels they were raised in two different families but with the same parents. She felt that both siblings were an annoyance and they fought a lot. Wells believes they fought so much to reflect the