Life, love, and happiness In “Happy Endings, ” Margaret Atwood writes about different types of couples going through life as middle class people in pursuit of happiness. Atwood’s short story captures the reality of life. Since the story is surrounded by middle class people, it gives the readers a way to connect with the characters. The characters in her story does realistic things and the Plot of her story is also realistic. Atwood’s short story starts off as a couple living a “challenging and stimulating” life (373). Everything is great and they eventually die. That was part A. The other parts of the story are a little different. Everything isn't all happiness. The couples go through problems and they die. Throughout each couple's lives
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A tidal wave hits their house but they manage to survive. Their life continues on like in part A, but in part E, Fred has heart problems. Fred ends up dying and Madge does charity work, then she eventually die. You can infer that Fred and Madge found happiness through loving each other. They were happy because they were in love. Atwood makes it clear that the power of love can be very strong. She gives us brief examples about what love can make us do and the results of those actions. Throughout the story, some of the characters do irrational things to find love. For example, the effects of love lead Marry to committing suicide and lead John to killing himself and two other people. Everyone made an attempt to find happiness. They tried to find happiness through love because they couldn't be happy without loving someone or something. An important factor that Atwood wanted her readers to know is that there are no happy endings. She makes her point clear in part F saying, “the only authentic ending is provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die” (375). In other words, the end of our life is the same. There are many different ways to lead up to the end, but the end is the same. We might die from heart problems like Fred, commit suicide like Mary, or get murdered like Mary and James. These were all different scenarios, but the ending was the same, they all
A tidal wave hits their house but they manage to survive. Their life continues on like in part A, but in part E, Fred has heart problems. Fred ends up dying and Madge does charity work, then she eventually die. You can infer that Fred and Madge found happiness through loving each other. They were happy because they were in love. Atwood makes it clear that the power of love can be very strong. She gives us brief examples about what love can make us do and the results of those actions. Throughout the story, some of the characters do irrational things to find love. For example, the effects of love lead Marry to committing suicide and lead John to killing himself and two other people. Everyone made an attempt to find happiness. They tried to find happiness through love because they couldn't be happy without loving someone or something. An important factor that Atwood wanted her readers to know is that there are no happy endings. She makes her point clear in part F saying, “the only authentic ending is provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die” (375). In other words, the end of our life is the same. There are many different ways to lead up to the end, but the end is the same. We might die from heart problems like Fred, commit suicide like Mary, or get murdered like Mary and James. These were all different scenarios, but the ending was the same, they all