Nothing Should Ruin This Visit by Shauna Singh Baldwin and Everyday Use by Alice WalkerIn “Nothing Should Ruin This Visit” by Shauna Singh Baldwin and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, two sets of sisters are your average adorable sisters. Sisters can be related by blood or married. "Is there any more comfort than in the arms of a sister?" Many sisters feel this way about each other. However, Chaya and Janet in "Nothing Should Ruin This Visit, They Are Sisters-in-Law, But They Are Not Best Friends. In "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker; Dee and Maggie are sisters related by blood, but are not actually in a relationship by blood. 'love that the sisters would have. Chaya and Janet appear to have a hostile relationship towards the end of "Nothing Must Spoil This Visit", the author tells a story of Janet's bi-racial marriage the woman married to the man Chaya has loved for so many years. This is why Chaya doesn't like Janet. She feels that Janet has stolen the love of her life. Chaya envied everything about Janet: “Before she had held Arvind close and scrutinized Janet with a curiosity that observed his travel-wrinkled jeans, his glasses with clear plastic frames and the remains of a perm in his brown hair."(108) Janet sees how "Chaya was still holding Arvind's arm."(108) was as if Chaya was trying to regain the body of someone she lost a long time ago. One would think that Chaya remembers what she might have had long ago. Even his brother cannot see what Arvind sees in this stranger: what did Arvind see in Janet? A woman who didn't seem to need a man. These foreign women, however, talk openly about machismo, but they really like it, they like to surrender to a real man. Look at their films: full of skinny women with red lips jutting out their pelvis towards every eye. No sweetness, no kindness, no softness. Unbroken fillies. (117) Why would Arvind love this “white woman” so much with all these flaws she has? At a later point in the story Janet is with Arvind at her grandfather's house and sees a photo of Chaya and Arvind: "And a later one in colour, Arvind looking in his mid-twenties and Chaya in a sari, smiling at him, an adoring smile . smile.