Two atypical Alice Munro stories

Two stories from The Moons of Jupiter collection are a bit atypical of Alice Munro - the title story does have a protagonist that's very familiar by now to all readers of her stories, an independent and artistic woman in a bad marriage or between bad relations, trying to find herself, oscillating between the Canadian poles of Toronto and Vancouver; in this story, the protagonist is moored temporarily in Toronto, in a friend's house, helping her father navigate through a serious heart condition that will lead to surgery - as an aside, it's interesting to see how entirely different hospital treatment was in about 1980 - as the father is in the hospital for many days or even weeks while they try to determine if he needs or should elect surgery - in any case, as the protag tends for her father she thinks about her daughters, each off toward a very independent life - one bound for Mexico with a boyfriend the mom is uncertain about, the other living on the artistic fringes of Toronto (I think) and rarely in touch - so the symbolism here, a bit off for Munro, is painfully obvious, these small planetary bodies circling but never touching, and the planet itself circling a life-giving sun, and so on - the universe moves along on its way and we are each isolate. The adjacent story in Munro's 1996 Selected Stories is Labor Day Dinner, and it involves a family of four visiting an old friend for a holiday weekend at her country farm - the relationships are many and complex, in fact almost impossible to follow at first, and that may be Munro's point - this story more than any other I've read by her seems to be her homage to Woolf (it recalls for me the complex relationships and the country weekend in To the Lighthouse) but given a very contemporary American personality - in fact, the characters seem like Ann Beattie characters transported north of the border - with their long, entwined history of failed relationships and abundant friendships.