There are an infinite number of personalities and the best works of art depict them vividly and faithfully. Some people are practical, while others are more abstract. In the comic novels about family life, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932) and Chicken Every Sunday: My Life with Mother's Boarders by Rosemary Taylor (1943), practical characters are to the fore. While representing different phases of life due to their age difference, Gibbons' main character, Flora Poste, is quite similar in her views and actions to those of Taylor's mother. The central theme is the conflict between notions of practicality and romance, reflected by the actions of the heroines, who happen to be strongly affected by their unconventional upbringing. The main characters of the two novels, Flora Poste and Mother, are driven by modern common sense. usual of their time. Flora, orderly and well-educated, lives her life through what she learns in self-help books. She is convinced that she knows what is best. Therefore, after meeting the Starkadders, the only thing that comes to his mind is to try to make them "normal" by his standards. She is obsessed with order in the lives of others, as well as her own. When she discovered other Starkadder women in Sussex, she told herself that she would save Elfine, but beyond that she would make no promises. Flora's practical nature helps her bring change to the other characters despite the conflict between her values ​​and those of the natives of Cold Comfort Farm. Taylor's mother seeks to expand her family and takes care of other people's affairs. Both heroines demonstrate their practicality by manipulating the lives of people around them who do not conform to certain standards. Mother and Flora take on the ambitious task... middle of paper ...... the dominatrix of bbons, Ada Doom, in the sense that both represent the power, which belongs to women within the traditional extended family (Faye 846). However, Mother remains practical and ordinary until the end, with the exception of the period following Father's death, while Ada, like Flora, or the rest of the natives of Cold Comfort Farm, changes radically over the course of 'a chapter under Flora's manipulation. . Cold comfort farm. London: The Penguin Group, 2006. Print. Taylor, Rosemary. Chicken every Sunday: my life with my mother's boarders. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1943. Print. Gerrard, Christine. “Sense and sensitivity in Cold Comfort Farm. » English review November 2004: 2. Print.Hammil, Faye. “Cold Comfort Farm, DH Lawrence and English literary culture between the wars.” » Studies in modern fiction Winter 2001: 831-854. Print.