At Happy Ending A, John and Mary fall in love and get married. They have jobs, a charming house, they have two children, to whom they are devoted and they turn out well. John and Mary have a stimulating and challenging sex life and worthwhile friend. They go on vacations together. They retire and both have hobbies eventually they die. This is a happy story. At B, Mary falls in love with John but John doesn’t love her back and is only using her for sex and never stay the night. Mary did her best to look good for John but John never notices. Mary found out that John takes a woman out to a nice restaurant for dinner from her friend, Mary took pills hoping John find her and they get married, have children, and have a happy ending but John never did then everything continues as in A. In D, Fred and Madge have a charming house by the seashore and a giant tidal wave approaches, real estate values to go down, the rest of the story is how they emerge from it and continue as in A.
In Happy Ending it can be any name, setting or any type of tragedy and the ending will be A. Happy Ending is like a house frame there are
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To help Charlotte get better, they both take a vacation to the countryside where they rent a mansion to during their stay. Charlotte starts writing a secret journal even though John told her not to write because it filled her with make belief. By reading Charlotte secret journal the reader can tell that Charlotte is getting worse, she became paranoid, obsess with the yellow wallpaper in their bedroom thinking that it alive and that a woman lives behind the wallpaper. She aversions it when people go near hers’ yellow wallpaper. In the end, Charlotte became crazy, Charlotte would have to be hospitalized in a mental hospital and of course, they both eventually
The ends of the story are very different from each other in quite a few ways. Let just say there is a good ending in one story and a bad ending in another. Lets go deeper
Charlotte finds herself at the end of a prison term for committing a felony against a man who deserved it. Upon her release, she finds that he is coming after her. Not for revenge but because he believes she has something of his, something that could put him away for life and topple a criminal enterprise.
While reading Roxanne Gay's essay “The trouble with Prince Charming or he who trespassed against us”; I learned that she had her own definition of the common fairy tale or at least what she thinks as one. “There is a man and a woman – who must overcome some obstacle to reach happily ever after.” Which is true in some cases, nevertheless depending on what side of the story you're reading you can make it out, happily ever after or not. They’re plenty of real tales that don’t end sure-enough happy. You probably know Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which side do you know? Not to ruin your childhood, however the original tale wasn’t remarkably happy after all. In Hans Christian Anderson's original story the prince marries someone else and the little mermaid throws herself into the water and turn to sea-foam. Not Disney’s tale of Ariel beats the wicked sea witch and swimming off to marry the wonderful prince. Instead of using a fairy tale that doesn’t end happy or an original she uses “fairytales”, twilight and 50 Shades of Grey that fall under her definition of a common fairy tale.
Perhaps if her mother wasn’t drunk most of the time, she may have been able to re direct her in to a better frame of mind. Charlotte is a young lady and not yet considered an adult. According to our text “The search for an identity during adolescence is aided by a psychosocial moratorium, which is Erikson’s term for the gap between childhood security and adult autonomy.” (Santrock, J, 2014) My honest opinion, I think that Charlotte was searching for her identity and was deeply confused by her home life. Unfortunately, there are so many young people in the world today that have that need to be in control. Sometimes, the things we see in the end are just like her behavior when she was driving dangerously because she was getting dumped. Most people assume that when you have it all like her, you have this perfect life. That wasn’t the case here, so I think that with all opportunities that her family may have been able to afford she just didn’t thrive because she could get away with what she wanted too and that damaged her in a way that could possibly shape her adult life.
Staring at the wall just sitting in a room that was supposedly a nursery before they came there made her go insane. Charlotte does not see John as the bad guy, nobody sees him as the bad guy, except for the people reading the story. John was not considered evil or bad, he was considered the good guy, the hero, the guy trying to help his wife and his patient. Charlotte was convinced by the good guy that she was actually getting better, she was getting used to it around there, except for the wallpaper. John was also a bad guy because he did not even try to help Charlotte into being comfortable at the country home.
Happy Endings is an oddly structured, metafictional story; a series of possible scenarios all leading the characters to the same ending. Atwood uses humour and practical wisdom to critique both romantic fiction and contemporary society, and to make the point that it is not the end that is important, it is the journey that truly matters in both life and writing.
Why should every story end with a happy one? Some writers want the readers to be able to connect to the characters in the story. They want us, the reader, to find the purpose of their writing. In the Solitude of Prime Numbers, the author is clearly showing us the reader the effects of life. It shows us damage it can cause a person, especially in ways that are irreversible. We are introduced to two characters Mattia and Alice. These are the main characters from the story and their life altering experience is what makes the story. The character, Mattia, is the standard child that is gifted intellectually and he finds it much easier to relate to numbers than he does with humans. He's not a very social character. He’s incapable of communicating and he can’t even look up at people in their eyes due to his overwhelming guilt he holds in. His only connection he has in life is with mathematical patterns and geometrical shapes. Since he has this connection he begins to form metaphors of math and life experiences. For example, he was
“Happy Endings,” written and narrated by Margaret Atwood, takes the appearance of a story where the reader chooses the ending. The short story includes six possible endings for when the characters, John and Mary, meet. However, each ending reverts to A which ends with death. Atwood uses second person point of view to point out the theme of the story. Moreover, the second person point of view helps exemplify the theme that no matter what one achieves or endures throughout life, life will always result in death by the narrator showing all the stories go back to story
Atwood uses “Happy Endings” in identifying and explaining the type of ending fictional stories should have and why. Works of fiction should have a happy ending which Atwood terms appealing to our ethical nature and therefore moral. Atwood provides a number of stories that implies different endings. However, the ending in the first story is referred in all other stories as the befitting ending. Atwood acknowledges the desires of works of fiction to bring out creativity by bring out intensity and passion, but this is only possible in the introduction and the body of a fictional story. All fictional stories have to end in the same way, a way that appeals to the human
The idea of a happy ending, to the common person, is the cliche ending of a story in which the protagonist gets the damsel, saves the world, and survives near death. However, this is a very simple way to look at the concept of a “happy ending” and neglects the grand scheme of things, just as there are more complicated equations in mathematics as one progresses in school, there are more complicated elements in a story as we look to dig deeper into literature. A story that has a complex happy ending is Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the story of a man seeking revenge on his family that has caused him much despair. If we look at this play in a simple manner, we will probably not look at the ending as happy ending as our beloved characters die,
In “Happy Endings,” Margaret Atwood manipulates literary techniques to emphasize how each story can have different plots yet end up with the same ending. She makes the case that, in every ending, the characters finish having a happy ending and “eventually they die” (paragraph 4). She infers that it is the contents between the beginning, and the end that bring interest and challenge to the characters, while the beginnings are more fun. The “true connoisseurs” is an important element because it is what makes up the plot (paragraph 21). The six scenarios of “Happy Endings” introduce differences in the beginning and the middle of the plot but result in the same ending. The plot in each scenario focuses on the significance of understanding how
Every minute that passed by, she got more and more upset. Charlotte didn’t want to keep bugging her, but she wanted to help her. Charlotte and Taylor had been very close friends since Charlotte was born. Taylor would always come over to her house and they would play games together. Both of them enjoyed it a lot, but for the past couple months, Taylor had been very stressed and nervous about her Homecoming, because she was nominated for Homecoming queen, and she was behind by a lot of votes. That is why she had been upset all the time. The more she checked, the more anxious she got because she was losing all of the votes. She was also reading all of the bad comments people had sent to
My first text, The Notebook, has a happy ending for the couple in love in the book and for the readers as well. Allie and Noah overcome many different obstacles thrown at them, however, they find their peace with each other and stay together in love at the end of the book. Allie is forced to choose between another man and Noah, she follows her heart and chooses her true love, Noah. Nicholas Sparks has written this novel in a way which allows for the readers to fall in love with Noah’s character when he is forced to leave Allie. We feel sad and sympathise with him. When the end of the book comes and we read over Allies moment to decide, we almost feel the pressure Allie does in the hope that she chooses Noah. The happy ending in this novel then becomes a happy ending for the character and the reader. My second text, Pride and Prejudice also subverts to the romance genre as Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet fall in love with each other and get married by the end of the novel. Titanic also links closely to my connection as Jack and Rose are together in love, however, Jack dies in the Titanic incident leaving Rose on her own to live her life without him. As we listen to Rose tell her story of Jack's death, we see the very end of the film in Rose’s mind, where she is back on the Titanic and sees Jack. She is reunited with him once and for all in her dreams. All of these romance texts and films end with the
Story A of Happy Endings, is the ultimate story of love. Everything is smooth throughout the whole story and both characters are happy and live happy lives. We as the readers find out that John and Mary go on “fun vacations” and that their children “turn out well”. This is by far my most favorite story out of all six. I find it interesting and funny that Atwood uses
In the story “Happy Endings” the author Margaret Atwood gives 6 scenarios in alphabetical order from A to F of how a couples life could play out over the span of their lives. In these six scenarios Atwood uses satire to emphasize how interchangeable and simple each couples life is. In this story Atwood uses character, style, and point of view to chastise the desire for the everyday common life and the concern for only the “whats” in life and not “how or why”.