Anything for "LOVE": Joan's struggle to be accepted.

Relationships that we create with others through our lives can be a strong influence on all of us. These relationships can define who we are and the quality that will be integrated into our lives. Loving relationships are a good source of comfort and support while intense relationship can cause stress and discouragement. In Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood, the main character, Joan Foster, is a confusing and complex person who had more than her …

…her life than to please the people around her (or displease in the case of her mother) so that she would feel the love and acceptance that were never given to her when she was young. So in fact, the importance of the relationship's in Joan's life was to give her the things she was longing for, love and acceptance, and to get it she chose to go as far as changing whom she was.