In a family there are sometimes the feelings of fighting for a parents love with other siblings. There may be sibling rivalry just because they want all attention on themselves and none for the other sibling. This seems true in both “King Lear” by William Shakespeare and in A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. King Lear’s daughters Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia seemed to want all of their father’s love but that wasn’t necessarily the case. The same se