What is the theme of the a day of the butterfly story for Alice munro?

"You're going to fight everyone's fight aren't you?" -Mama to Minerva

"Adversity was like a key in a lock for me." -Minerva

"I don't know how it happened that my cross became bearable." -Patria

"May I never experience all that it is possible to get used to." -Maria Teresa

"And I see them all there in my memory, as still as statues, Mamá and Papá, and Minerva and Mate and Patria, and I'm thinking something is missing now. And I count them all twice before I realize--it's me, Dedé, it's me, the one who survived to tell the story." -Dedé