Narrative Story-Happy Ending by Margaret Atwood

The story has several scenarios; the author creates two main characters, John and Mary. The story is like a journey it can go any way you want it to go. The narrative has planned out the whole story you just have to choose an ending to it. All the scenarios focus on relationship, love, and cheating on their wife. The author is trying to make us understand that the ending will be the same however you slice it. Do not be deluded by any other ending because all endings are deliberately fake. Those other endings are malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The author states there is only one authentic ending and that is death. After all, at the end of every person's life, regardless of how they lived it or what they experienced, they will encounter death. "So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with." That the beginnings of the story are the life of the story and what makes a story that is what the author is trying to make us understand. The concept of the story is not let life become "a what and a what and a what." Learn to favor the stretch between beginning and end. You chose the way you want your life to go. If you want it you can make your own happy ending.


Woodson, Zach. Literary analysis: Happy Endings, by Margaret Atwood. Helium, 2009. Web. <http://www.helium.com/items/1378403-margaret-atwood-happy-endings>.