Happing Endings Essay

In the short story Happing Endings, Margaret Atwood conveys several unique ways of alternating the stories theme. For instance, in scenario A the couple John and Mary live a happy life with no conflict nor problems and dithery live and die happily. While in scenario B-F Atwood gives us scenarios of different conflicts and tragedies that's not surprisingly happen in peoples everyday life, but you still end up with the same outcome as scenario A. This short story gave me mixed emotions about, see what is the authors purpose of writing this piece, and also personal connections it might have towards me. I actually like the story Happy Endings but somewhat want to disagree but can’t with Atwood’s theory of how different scenarios of relationships will end. The story remind me of the books I used to read in school where they give you different options and whatever option you choose then you turn the page to it. For example there was this book I had read and you were in a cave with two paths ahead of you, if you want to go left then you would turn to a certain page but if you want to turn right then you would turn to a different page. To me this story felt somewhat seem to simple and obvious in a way that we will all die no matter what paths we …show more content…
Many good ones and many bad ones, but no matter what route you decide to take in your journey of life the end results will be the same as any other income. The fact that Atwood stated these different scenarios and results made me think she had many bad or even good relationships in her. I personally somewhat enjoyed reading this short story Happy Endings by Atwood. It showed me how different peoples lives and relationships could be different with the simple fact that no matter what route you take, at the end of the day it'll al be gone. It makes you think about certain stuff and situations and ask yourself, “Is the the path I want to