Cold Sassy Tree is a moving novel written by Olive Ann Burns. It's filled with interesting and realistic characters who are foils or opposites of each other. Two of the characters are Mary Willis Tweedy and Loma Campbell. Mary Willis and the Loma sisters are alike and different in many ways. The same is true for me and my sister Amna. Loma and Mary Willis are very different people but they can be alike and agree on many things. When their father, Rucker Blakeslee, marries a woman young enough to be his daughter, just three weeks after his wife's death. They are also both very shocked as to why their father says "Well, damn it, my God! She's as dead as she ever will be, isn't she? Well, isn't she not ?" They think it's a shame for their mother's memory that their father would say something so terrible and marry just three weeks after his wife died. Plus, they both care what the town says about their family. They know people will think Miss Love had her eye on Rucker's money; and that Rucker has his eyes on Miss. Love since he met her too. They both don't like Miss Love very much. On the one hand, she's almost a Yankee and Yankees are looked down upon in Cold Sassy. Loma acted very harshly upon the news of her father's remarriage because she cared about his reputation in Cold Sassy but also because she did not like Miss Love very much; Aunt Loma was the prettiest and most elegant woman in town, but after Miss. Love moved to Cold Sassy, ​​that was no longer true. Mary Willis doesn't like Miss either. Love. It is said that when Rucker and Miss. Love came to dinner at Mary Willis's house, Rucker enjoyed the cake that Mary Willis prepared so much; he wanted Miss Love to bake him the cake and told Mary Willis to write the recipe for her. Mary Willis told Miss Love "It's in that old brown shoebox in the pantry with all of Mom's other receipts. Unless you threw the box away." Mary Willis was still mean to Miss Love for stealing her trip to New York and she thought Miss Love was trying to take her mother's place by doing the same things her mother did. Mary Willis and Loma are also similar in their physical features..