In Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” the language and choice of scenario allow the reader to infer this author is rather pessimistic when it comes to relationships, along with the interaction that a reader has when reading about a love story. In the very beginning a sweet and innocent situation is talked about, however she quickly advances to a scenario that is much less pleasant and more on the side of depressing and dark. The author continues to give examples that fall into this pattern having encounters with infidelity, death, and loss. One suicide, a triple homicide, a natural disaster, and a bad health condition, leave the reader with a rather dreary set of emotions towards the way endings come about in love and in stories. She continues
