The choice he made, influenced the end of two lives and one more, the life of his wife Madge. Being blinded with his jealousy, John kills Mary and her young lover James and himself. Or in the C section, the topic of jealousy is being explored by the author. But there was John, near, twice a week and she did not try to change the situation somehow, fully subordinating her own desires to John’s ones. In this situation John was not the one, determined for Mary and being a great and tidy woman, very concerned about her man, she would have managed to find a better fortune for herself. Having picked up the way with the medicine, she nothing but showed that she is a weak creature, who decided to follow the flow, not to resist the circumstances of her life. And no matter how much Mary wants to see other decision, he is the only person to do this, and he made his choice. But the brutal reality is that John is to decide for himself what he is to do in the life. Actually, she thought that John would save her, take her to the hospital, repent and they would get married finally. For example, it the section B, where Mary commits suicide it is well depicted. Then, Margaret Atwood enlarges on the topic and proposes the different scripts with quite different endings to show, that a person has a right to choose. Whether it be John or Mary or James and Madge or whoever more, the obstacles, met by a person within his or her life denotes that the person is alive and moreover, is able to overcome them. For example, the repetition of some phrases like “Fall in love”, “get married”, “stimulating and challenging”, “real estate values”, the repetition of these words or phrases aims at emphasizing that no matter what the script of life is, people come across the same things during their lives. The feeling of the deeper thought, enclosed in the plain content is evoked by miscellaneous devices, used by the author. Atwood, being aware of it, puts much of the context in such a few content, that it makes one respect the author. In the short story like “Happy Endings” it is an impermissible way to put meaningless or spare words within. As the characters have their place and functions, words are meaningful and the message itself is symbolic. Then, the symbolism of the story can not be lost on the reader. Not only it a uniting factor for the stories, it also plays as a main symbol and a message of the story. Though all the stories are really different, they all have one and the same uniting factor, which is the same ending of them. The same characters, used are piercing through the story, being a red line of it are used with a purpose, the author is to reveal only at the end of the story. Probably, there is something missed by the reader or the author is eager to say something important by that. Why the same people appear to be in different life situations for five times. And reading the same names within it one is forced to think “why?”. The same characters are playing different roles each and every time, wandering from A part of the story to E part. Atwood’s story evokes some non-material symbols and feelings in one’s sub-consciousness. This approach is being used frequently by Atwood, as it has been revealed by Rose Wilson in her study “Intertext in Atwood’s psychological text reverberates with mythic significance, giving us courage to face themes of sexual politics–in literature, society, and our lives.” (Wilson, xv). Main bodyįirstly, after the reading of the story it occurs that it is a psychological story. The plot of the story, presenting some options of one and the same volume of people is able to still be the deepest thought within itself, being interpreted in a right way. The short story called “Happy Endings” is not an exclusion from a general rule as Margaret Atwood managed both to put a deep context within a two-page-story and to reveal her own viewpoint to the reader of the story. So, she is really concerned with the issues she writes about and with the matters she brings up within her writings. Besides, she is the writer, who puts her soul within the works. The works by Margaret Atwood are found to contain deep context, enclosed within the novels, poems and even the shortest stories of hers. The matter is not included how much one writes, but rather how applicable and deep it is. Atwood, being called a classical writer of today, is a truly outstanding novelist, poet, short story writer.
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