In Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” and David Ives’ Sure Thing, both stories share a common theme of trying to find a happy ending in a romantic relationship. Furthermore, most of the characters in both “Happy Endings” and Sure Thing focus on finding the perfect person to settle down with or are trying to make a relationship work and lead to the perfect life with their significant other. Also, both the short story and the play have various similarities and differences. In addition to this, the characters also struggle with the conflict of trying to find the right person to spend the rest of their lives with. Not everyone gets the opportunity to find that perfect someone to spend the rest of their life with.
One similarity between the short story and the play is the versions A through F and the bell. On the contrary, they also contrast each other because while the …show more content…
For example, version A’s tone is happy because she talks about hoe John and Mary have the perfect life while version B is on the more depressing side because John does not love Mary but she loves him and because of this, she ends up dying while he lives a version A with another women named Madge (363-364). Also, in version F Atwood uses metafiction and becomes even more realistic when she says, “The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die” (366). This implies that no matter how happy or sad the character’s lives were, in the end they all die. Similar to Atwood, Ives story also carries a happy tone because the goal of the story is that Betty and Bill have a happy ending together. On the contrary, Ives is not as blunt as Atwood and never uses metafiction to help create a more realistic tone in his play. Unlike Atwood, Ives focuses on the middle of the character’s lives and their happiness rather than their
One similarity between the short story and the play is the versions A through F and the bell. On the contrary, they also contrast each other because while the …show more content…
For example, version A’s tone is happy because she talks about hoe John and Mary have the perfect life while version B is on the more depressing side because John does not love Mary but she loves him and because of this, she ends up dying while he lives a version A with another women named Madge (363-364). Also, in version F Atwood uses metafiction and becomes even more realistic when she says, “The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die” (366). This implies that no matter how happy or sad the character’s lives were, in the end they all die. Similar to Atwood, Ives story also carries a happy tone because the goal of the story is that Betty and Bill have a happy ending together. On the contrary, Ives is not as blunt as Atwood and never uses metafiction to help create a more realistic tone in his play. Unlike Atwood, Ives focuses on the middle of the character’s lives and their happiness rather than their