My Fate Is Not Your Fate

The two women in “My Fate is Not Your Fate” represent the fork in a lifelong road. As children, they may have shared similar experiences, but in adulthood their paths take different directions. Although they stand beside one another as they have for years, their postures indicate alternative possibilities. “We all may share many common threads but, says Barney, “we don’t all have to want the same thing.”