Connections between 3 stories

Connections Between Three Stories Are there any connections between the past three stories we read? The stories are “To Build A Fire”, “A White Heron”, and “The Shipping News”. In stories, I think you can always find some kind of connection, whether it be a miniscule little detail, or the plots of the stories are the same. In these three stories the connection I see is that the main character in each seems as though …

…with them. Petal dies in a car crash, and about a week later the girls are recovered unharmed. Quoyle’s Aunt Agnis moves them up to her native Newfoundland into her 40-year-abandoned house. They fix the house up and Quoyle gets a steady job. He also begins making friends, and even find a love interest. At the end of the book, Quoyle gets married, and all is well for him and the rest of Killick-Claw.