Feminist Perspective Of Women In Happy Endings By Margaret Atwood

From a Feminist Perspective, the women in “Happy Endings” are typically portrayed as weak characters. In this short narrative, we follow the storylines of two women who have issues in their love lives. The first scenario begins as the perfect love story, but as Margaret Atwood keeps writing, each scenario becomes darker than the last. In “Happy Endings” the female characters all seem to rely only on men. This causes multiple problems for them, all of which result in death. The author writes about two particular women in her story named, Madge and Mary. In scenario A, Mary falls in love with a man named John. The two get married and live “happily ever after” until death. In scenario B, Mary falls in love with John, but he does not share