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Margaret Atwood's Happy Endings
Happy Endings Based on my knowledge, nearly 95% people prefer a happy ending for a story or a movie, but in the reality a percentage of people have a happy ending with their life, marriage, school, work is much lower than that. That is reason why people keep prefer a happy ending for things that they read, watch or work on. On the story “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, She shows me a difference scenario that life of a couple can happen. It could very good like in the scenario A or very bad like in scenario B or mid-grade like scenarios C – F. Reality and theory always have wide space between them, which means it is hard to have a happy ending if you won’t try hard to rise up your knowledge up to date and so on to pass over other people …show more content…
Life is much dirtier, muddier and people are much more horrible than what people usually think. Over the scenario B, Margaret, the author has name list of acts that in my opinion it is very rude, terrible and not acceptable that John does to Mary. But Mary keep loving him without any complain, or notice and keep hoping that one day he would change and love her. But life is not like what people want. John hangs out with another woman and loves her. To test the love between them, Mary swallows ton of sleep medicine and hope that John would get back and wake her up, but it never happened and Mary died. Because there is a missing love from one side of the relationship between John and Marry, it leads them to a bad ending. After all, John has found out a right one for him and has a happy life with her. Love should come from both sides, not just from a woman or a man but both. In the past, or current and future, we can sometime meet people that force themselves to like or love one that they do not really like or have love with. It is luck if they could maintain their relationship but it is rarely happen. Soon or later, they would get trouble with their partner and end up with a break up or divorce if they married. Because of that, people should be careful to figure out the right one for them and trick

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